kube-stresscheck

Script to check Kubernetes nodes on stress (CPU/RAM) resistance.

It will run 5 iterations of stress command with following parameters:

• CPU forks equal to number of cores.
• Memory forks will be computed to allocate whole memory.

For details what stress does under the hood see manual.

Quick start

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/giantswarm/kube-stresscheck/master/examples/node.yaml

Wait at least 30 seconds and check for CrashLooping pods and NotReady nodes.

kubectl get pods -n kube-system
kubectl get nodes

kubectl delete -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/giantswarm/kube-stresscheck/master/examples/node.yaml

Usually pods like kube-proxy, nginx-ingress-controller, calico-node are crashlooping. If kubelet or docker was affected by stress test then node will become NotReady.

Stress test whole cluster

If you're really brave, then you can start stress check on the whole cluster (including a master node).

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/giantswarm/kube-stresscheck/master/examples/cluster.yaml

Most probably you have just KILLED your cluster. It will probably require manual intervention after this command.

If cluster is still ok, then remove stress check.

kubectl delete -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/giantswarm/kube-stresscheck/master/examples/node.yaml