MayaData: Acceptance of Open-Source Project LitmusChaos Into CNCF Sandbox

MayaData, Inc. has received acceptance of another open-source project LitmusChaos into CNCF Sandbox.

With this acceptance, the company adds to a complete, open-source, solution for using Kubernetes as a data layer, enabling Kubernetes SREs and platform teams to develop, deploy, and operate stateful workloads on Kubernetes faster and more reliably.

The complete solution, Kubera, is free forever for individual usage as SaaS and also on-premise.

“We are extremely thrilled about building a larger community around chaos engineering in the CNCF ecosystem for wide adoption of Litmus. Practicing chaos engineering in a cloud-native way is essential for faster application delivery and improved resilience in production,” said Uma Mukkara, co-founder, MayaData, and sponsor of Litmus project. “What started as our own tooling for user success has evolved into an active community, with excellent contributions and core activities already being led by engineers from companies as diverse as Intuit, RingCentral, Wipro, Container Solutions and Zebrium. We’d especially like to thank the maintainers, contributors, adopters of Litmus, volunteers in the CNCF community, and specifically, the App-Delivery-SIG whose feedback and due diligence have helped us tremendously.”

The journey of Litmus project from inception to sandbox and the roadmap is discussed in this blog.

“Litmus is one of the most promising open-source chaos engineering frameworks that takes into account proper chaos engineering principles while providing autonomy and extensibility to the users,” said Andreas Krivas, active member, Litmus community, and lead cloud-native engineer, Container-Solutions.

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LitmusChaos brings chaos engineering to Kubernetes in a cloud-native way, with a pluggable architecture of different chaos experiments. It experiments are shared via the ChaosHub, a place where developers and Kubernetes SREs share chaos experiments as Helm charts to improve their own chaos engineering and share and improve their best practices industry-wide. Popular charts include experiments to kill pods and containers, hog CPU usage, and simulate full disks. Experiments can also be tied together to create complex chaos workflows via integration with Argo, another CNCF project. There are also project-specific collections of Chaos charts including those for OpenEBS, Cassandra, Kafka and CoreDNS.

The company is the largest private company contributor to the codebase of CNCF projects, trailing only Google, RedHat/IBM, VMware, and Microsoft. The contribution by the firm of LitmusChaos to the CNCF furthers solidifies the position of MayaData as one of an open-source cloud-native contributors.

The company has become the partner for users using Kubernetes as their data layer thanks to a code first strategy, that has resulted in thousands of users, active OpenEBS and LitmusChaos open source projects, and the recent launch of Kubera as an all in one solution for operations of stateful workloads on Kubernetes. Customers and users include Bloomberg, Comcast, Arista Networks, Optoro, Orange, Intuit, Intel and thousands of others.

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