Chaos Testing

Chaos Testing is integral to any cloud deployed application. Chaos testing could on a wider scale can be thought of as resiliency testing of all components of a cloud deployment including infrastructure, network, storage and application. Open/Free chaos testing toolkits exist, but they could be a hassle for setting up…

Your company might be depending on the unit and integration tests to ensure the product is functioning as intended. However, is it enough? The answer is no. Even though you are testing each component and method that you are using in unit and integration tests, this still does not show…

by Sunit Parekh and Prashanth Ramakrishnan In this article we will describe how to perform chaos testing using Litmus chaos toolkit, a popular chaos testing tool. There are 4 major steps for running any chaos test. The first step is defining a steady state, which means defining how an ideal…

There are bound to be failures in production — bugs in the applications, network outages, infra breakdown. The question is whether one should be surprised with the results when such a thing happens or be better equipped by learning from the experience of intentionally inflicting the issues to test resilience…

By Frank Wickström Paraphrasing what Netflix and many others have said before: The only way to be comfortable with failures is to fail often Why create chaos? Over the past few years, Anders has focused heavily on DevOps; we have done so because we have seen it as one of the most critical…

Hello Guys, I recently attended a session based on Industrial Use Cases for Kubernetes by Experts conducted by Mr. Rushil Sharma, Mr. Vijit Kuntal & Mr. Neeraj Bhatt.

Distributed software systems are all around us. If you as an engineer care about the availability of the system you build, a distributed architecture is your choice. It helps the system to continue running if some replicas of service are down. But besides that advantage, the distributed nature of a…

Written by Nick Joyce In part one, we defined what chaos testing is, the goals, and how to implement it effectively. …

Ben Ye, Chengwen Yin Chaos Mesh® is an open-source chaos engineering platform for Kubernetes. Although it provides rich capabilities to simulate abnormal system conditions, it still only solves a fraction of the Chaos Engineering puzzle. …