Extensions
Steadybit ships with various discoveries, attacks, checks and more to run chaos-engineering experiments and automatic weak spot identification. These capabilities ensure an excellent out-of-the-box experience. However, not every technology is supported natively by Steadybit. To this end, Steadybit exposes extension mechanisms through which everyone can add capabilities. For example, this enables
- the discovery of new targets that one can attack within experiments,
- the definition of new attacks for existing or new targets,
- custom verification logic to run as part of experiments or
- the usage of custom (shell) scripts in experiments.
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Extensions are what most regular users will interact with to extend Steadybit’s capabilities. They are deployable units (typically containers) exposing a remote HTTP interface with which Steadybit agents communicate.
Extensions are deployed manually within customers’ networks.
Extension authors, maintainers and contributors will leverage extension APIs to enhance Steadybit’s capabilities. Typically, extensions are required to expose a remote HTTP interface complying with extension APIs.
Kits are the combination of extension APIs, conventions, contracts, documentation, examples and more. They are leveraged mainly by the same audience that would author extension.
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