Traefik Fault Injection

This plugin can be used to test the resiliency of microservices to different forms of failures.

Inspired by the Envoy Fault Injection filter.

Installation

You're on Github:

• Go to Fault Injection on Traefik Pilot and click the Install Plugin button.

You're on Traefik Pilot:

• Click the Install Plugin button.

Header options

Currently supported header controls:

x-traefik-fault-delay-request

The duration to delay a request by. The header value should be an integer that specifies the number of milliseconds to throttle the latency for. This header depends on the Delay plugin option.

With x-traefik-fault-delay-request-percentage you can specify the percentage of requests that should be affected (value: 0-100)

x-traefik-fault-abort-request

HTTP status code to abort a request with. The header value should be an integer that specifies the HTTP status code to return in response to a request. This header depends on the Abort plugin option.

With x-traefik-fault-abort-request-percentage you can specify the percentage of requests that should be affected (value: 0-100)

Plugin options

Delay

Default: true

This determines if the delay failure is enabled.

DelayDuration

Default: 0

The number of milliseconds to throttle the latency for.

DelayPercentage

Default: 100

The percentage of requests that should be delayed.

Abort

Default: false

This determines if the abort failure is enabled.

AbortCode

Default: 400

The HTTP status code to return.

AbortPercentage

Default: 100

The percentage of requests that should be failed.

How to contribute

1. Check for open issues or open a fresh issue to start a discussion around a feature idea or a bug.
2. Fork the repository on GitHub to start making your changes to the master branch (or branch off of it).
3. Write a test that shows that the bug was fixed or that the feature works as expected.
4. Send a pull request and bug me until it gets merged and published.