ChaosToolkit --var-file option is fails with error Error: no such option: --var-file /tmp/token.env - chaos

Question

We are trying to run a chaos experiment and running into this error:
ubuntu#ip-x-x-x-x:~$ kubectl logs -f pod/chaos-testing-hn8c5 -n <ns>
[2022-12-08 16:05:22 DEBUG] [cli:70] ###############################################################################
[2022-12-08 16:05:22 DEBUG] [cli:71] Running command 'run'
[2022-12-08 16:05:22 DEBUG] [cli:75] Using settings file '/root/.chaostoolkit/settings.yaml'
Usage: chaos run [OPTIONS] SOURCE
Try 'chaos run --help' for help.
Error: no such option: --var-file /tmp/token.env
Here is the spec file:
spec:
serviceAccountName: {{ .Values.serviceAccount.name }}
restartPolicy: Never
initContainers:
- name: {{ .Values.initContainer.name }}
image: "{{ .Values.initContainer.image.name }}:{{ .Values.initContainer.image.tag }}"
imagePullPolicy: {{ .Values.initContainer.image.pullPolicy }}
command: ["sh", "-c", "curl -X POST https://<url> -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' -d 'grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=<client_id&client_secret=<client_secret>'| jq -r --arg prefix 'ACCESS_TOKEN=' '$prefix + (.access_token)' > /tmp/token.env;"]
volumeMounts:
- name: token-path
mountPath: /tmp
- name: config
mountPath: /experiment
readOnly: true
containers:
- name: {{ .Values.image.name }}
securityContext:
privileged: true
capabilities:
add: ["SYS_ADMIN"]
allowPrivilegeEscalation: true
image: {{ .Values.image.repository }}
args:
- --verbose
- run
- --var-file /tmp/token.env
- /experiment/terminate-all-pods.yaml
env:
- name: CHAOSTOOLKIT_IN_POD
value: "true"
volumeMounts:
- name: token-path
mountPath: /tmp
- name: config
mountPath: /experiment
readOnly: true
resources:
limits:
cpu: 20m
memory: 64Mi
requests:
cpu: 20m
memory: 64Mi
volumes:
- name: token-path
emptyDir: {}
- name: config
configMap:
name: {{ .Values.experiments.name }}
We have also tried using the --var "KEY=VALUE" which also failed with the same error.
Any help with this is appreciated. We have hit the wall at this point in time
Docker image being used is: https://hub.docker.com/r/chaostoolkit/chaostoolkit/tags

Answer 1

The kubernetes manifest is slight incorrect.
The environment variable injection worked when passing it like this:
args:
- --verbose
- run
- --var-file
- /tmp/token.env
- /experiment/terminate-all-pods.yaml
The option flag and its value needed to be on two separate lines