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podinfo
Go microservice for testing Kubernetes deployments, probes, and fault handling
- Stars
- 6k
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Last commit
- Oct 2026
- Last release
- Oct 2026
- Language
- Go
5,849 on 22 Apr 20266,043 on 11 Nov 2026
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Before you pick it
- Known advisory in latest version. 4 known advisories: github.com/stefanprodan/podinfo v1.8.0, the latest version. Source (opens in a new tab), checked .
Overview
Podinfo is a small Go web service that exposes HTTP and gRPC endpoints for health probes, Prometheus metrics, JWT issuing, Redis caching, fault injection, and echo or delay responses. CNCF projects such as Flux and Flagger use it for end-to-end tests and workshops. It installs with Timoni, Helm, Kustomize, or a plain Docker run on port 9898. It contains no AI or model features.
Who it is for: Platform engineers testing Kubernetes delivery, canary rollouts, meshes
Strengths
- Fault injection, configurable delay, panic and status-code endpoints for testing circuit breakers and rollouts
- Readiness and liveness probes, graceful shutdown, Prometheus and OpenTelemetry instrumentation built in
- Installs via Timoni, Helm, Kustomize or docker run; multi-arch image signed with cosign
- Optional SPIFFE mTLS with X.509 SVIDs from the Workload API
Weaknesses
- Not an AI project; no model, agent, or LLM functionality
- A test and demo workload, not a starter for real application logic
- Cache endpoints need a separate Redis instance
- Needs Kubernetes v1.23 or newer for the documented installs
What it needs
- Go
- Needs Kubernetes v1.23+ (for Helm, Kustomize, Timoni installs), Redis (optional, for /cache endpoints), SPIRE agent (optional, for SPIFFE mTLS)
- Docker
What changed
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