Let’s face it, bad things happen in software engineering, often when you least expect it. Servers go down, there are spikes in traffic, you receive networking errors. Luckily, you can avoid these problems. Enter chaos engineering.
Chaos engineering is where you try to find the limits of a system and simulate adverse effects that might happen. These simulations then help you to determine the best way to improve your system and build up its resiliency.
This course is divided into various sections to get you used to the different types of experiments you can run in chaos engineering. You will start by learning how to destroy application instances in order to show you the importance of scaling, fault tolerance, and high availability.
You will then dive deep into other types of experiments such as destroying a network, draining and deleting nodes, and testing availability. Towards the end of the course, you will learn how to run experiments in a Kubernetes cluster.

The DevOps Toolkit: Kubernetes Chaos Engineering

## Installing the plugin

There is one crucial thing you should know about Chaos Toolkit. It does not support Kubernetes out-of-the-box, and that’s not the only thing it does not provide initially. There are many others that we will need. But, luckily for us, the Chaos Toolkit itself is very basic because it is based on the plugins (or modules) ecosystem.
For anything beyond basic out-of-the-box features, we need to install a plugin. Since our primary interest right now is in Kubernetes, we are going to install a Kubernetes plugin, and we will do that using `pip`.


# Installing the plugin

There is one crucial thing you should know about Chaos Toolkit. It does not support Kubernetes out-of-the-box, and that’s not the only thing it does not provide initially. There are many others that we will need. But, luckily for us, the Chaos Toolkit itself is very basic because it is based on the plugins (or modules) ecosystem.
For anything beyond basic out-of-the-box features, we need to install a plugin. Since our primary interest right now is in Kubernetes, we are going to install a Kubernetes plugin, and we will do that using `pip`.


This lesson contains instructions on how to install the Chaos Toolkit Kubernetes plugin, and you will also discover what it can do.

Introduction To Kubernetes Chaos Engineering

Defining Requirements

Destroying Application Instances

Experimenting with Application Availability

Obstructing and Destroying Network

Draining and Deleting Nodes

Creating Chaos Experiment Reports

Running Chaos Experiments Inside a Kubernetes Cluster

Executing Random Chaos

What’s Next?

Discovering Chaos Toolkit Kubernetes Plugin

Installing the plugin