demo-toxiproxy.md

Chaos engineering + toxiproxy

Test setup

version: "3.3"
services:
  toxiproxy:
    image: "shopify/toxiproxy:latest"
    ports:
      - "8474:8474"
      - "8080:8080"
  httpbin:
    image: "kennethreitz/httpbin:latest"

Orchestration commands (CLI)

• Run testbed
  • docker-compose up
• Create service
  • docker-compose exec toxiproxy sh
  • cd /go/bin/
  • ./toxiproxy-cli create httpbin-service -l 0.0.0.0:8080 -u httpbin:80
• Test service without toxics
  • salvo "http://127.0.0.1:8080" -c 10 -n 100
• Add some toxics
  • ./toxiproxy-cli toxic add httpbin-service --type latency --toxicName httpbin-latency --attribute latency=1000 --attribute jitter=100 --toxicity=0.7
• Run a quick test using a simple load testing tool
  • salvo "http://127.0.0.1:8080/get" -c 10 -n 100
• Add some more toxics
  • ./toxiproxy-cli toxic add httpbin-service --type limit_data --toxicName httpbin-limit-data --attribute bytes=500 --toxicity=0.7
• Run a quick test using a simple load testing tool
  • salvo "http://127.0.0.1:8080/get" -c 10 -n 100
• Add some more toxics
  • ./toxiproxy-cli toxic add httpbin-service --type timeout --toxicName httpbin-timeout --attribute timeout=1 --toxicity=0.6
• Run a quick test using a simple load testing tool
  • salvo "http://127.0.0.1:8080/get" -c 10 -n 100
• Run testbed
  • docker-compose up
• Create service
  • docker-compose exec toxiproxy sh
  • cd /go/bin/
  • ./toxiproxy-cli create httpbin-service -l 0.0.0.0:8080 -u httpbin:80
• Test service without toxics
  • salvo "http://127.0.0.1:8080" -c 10 -n 100
• Add some toxics
  • ./toxiproxy-cli toxic add httpbin-service --type latency --toxicName httpbin-latency --attribute latency=1000 --attribute jitter=100 --toxicity=0.7
• Run a quick test using a simple load testing tool
  • salvo "http://127.0.0.1:8080/get" -c 10 -n 100
• Add some more toxics
  • ./toxiproxy-cli toxic add httpbin-service --type limit_data --toxicName httpbin-limit-data --attribute bytes=500 --toxicity=0.7
• Run a quick test using a simple load testing tool
  • salvo "http://127.0.0.1:8080/get" -c 10 -n 100
• Add some more toxics
  • ./toxiproxy-cli toxic add httpbin-service --type timeout --toxicName httpbin-timeout --attribute timeout=1 --toxicity=0.6
• Run a quick test using a simple load testing tool
  • salvo "http://127.0.0.1:8080/get" -c 10 -n 100

API

https://github.com/Shopify/toxiproxy#http-api

Endpoints

All endpoints are JSON.

• GET /proxies - List existing proxies and their toxics
• POST /proxies - Create a new proxy
• POST /populate - Create or replace a list of proxies
• GET /proxies/{proxy} - Show the proxy with all its active toxics
• POST /proxies/{proxy} - Update a proxy's fields
• DELETE /proxies/{proxy} - Delete an existing proxy
• GET /proxies/{proxy}/toxics - List active toxics
• POST /proxies/{proxy}/toxics - Create a new toxic
• GET /proxies/{proxy}/toxics/{toxic} - Get an active toxic's fields
• POST /proxies/{proxy}/toxics/{toxic} - Update an active toxic
• DELETE /proxies/{proxy}/toxics/{toxic} - Remove an active toxic
• POST /reset - Enable all proxies and remove all active toxics
• GET /version - Returns the server version number

Example of using API for load testing orchestration

https://github.com/johngian/mw-push-notifications-profiler/blob/master/src/push_notifications.py#L11