Remediation Action

The Remediation Action configuration defines micro-operations to execute in response to a problem. These micro-operations are interpreted by Keptn to trigger the proper remediation and to provide self-healing for an application without modifying code.

Remediation Action

• A remediation maps to a problem.
• A remediation declares an action to executed as a response to the problem.

Example of a remediation action configuration:

remediations:
- name: "Response time degradation"
  actions:
  - action: scaling
    value: +1
- name: "Failure rate increase"
  actions:
  - action: featuretoggle
    value: EnablePromotion:off

A remediation action is configured based on two properties:

• The name refers to the title of a problem.
• The actions takes a list of actions (currently only one is supported). An action can be set to scaling or featuretoggle.
  • scalling: scales the Kubernetes pod of the deployment based on the specified value.
  • featuretoggle: toggles a feature flag specified by the value and controlled by the Unleash framework.

Add a Remediation Action to a Service

Important: In the following command, the value of the resourceUri must be set to remediation.yaml.

• To add an remediation action to a service, use the keptn add-resource command:

  keptn add-resource --project=sockshop --stage=production --service=carts --resource=remediation.yaml --resourceUri=remediation.yaml