A Guide for Engineers

The First 5 Chaos Experiments to Run on Kubernetes

Learn how to improve the availability and reliability of Kubernetes clusters using the discipline of Chaos Engineering.

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About the Authors

Jordan Pritchard

Director of Infrastructure & Site Reliability Engineering

Michael Kehoe

Architect of reliable, scalable infrastructure

Rodney Lester

Technical Lead, Reliability Pillar of Well Architected Program

Tammy Butow

Principal SRE

Jay Holler

Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

Ramin Keene

Founder

In this guide, we cover:

  • How to improve the availability and reliability of Kubernetes clusters using the discipline of Chaos Engineering
  • How to use Chaos Engineering to safely inject failure into your applications and nodes in order to detect weaknesses.
  • Specific Chaos Experiments for you to run on Kubernetes to ensure you’ve designed a reliable system.

You'll learn how Chaos Engineering can help you and your team harden your Kubernetes infrastructure, improve reliability, and keep your applications running smoothly

  • Incident classification: SEV descriptions and levels, and SEV and time-to-detection (TTD) timelines

  • Organization-wide critical service monitoring, including key dashboards and KPI metrics emails

  • Service ownership and metrics for organizations maintaining a microservices architecture

  • Effective on-call principles for site reliability engineers, including rotation structure, alert threshold maintenance, and escalation practices

  • Chaos Engineering practices to identify random and unpredictable behavior in your system

  • Monitoring and metrics to detect incidents caused by self-healing systems

  • Creating a high-reliability culture by listening to people in your organization

Even systems like Kubernetes need to be tested to verify that they can handle turbulent production conditions.

By thoughtfully injecting failure into Kubernetes, engineers can identify bugs before migrating a new service over and ensure successful launches and the stable ongoing performance of their application. This reduces time fighting fires so teams can ship more code, faster.

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