The DevOps Toolkit: Kubernetes Chaos Engineering

Course Overview

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 o... See More

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Built in assessments let you test your skills. Completion certificates let you show them off.

Course Contents

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1. Introduction To Kubernetes Chaos Engineering

A Brief Introduction to Chaos Engineering

Who Are We?

Principles of Chaos Engineering

Are You Ready for Chaos?

Examples Of Chaos Engineering

The Principles and the Process

Chaos Experiments Checklist

How is the Course Organized?

Before We Begin

2. Defining Requirements

The Requirements Guiding the Choice of a Tool

Which Tool Should We Choose?

Defining Course Requirements

Installing Chaos Toolkit

3. Destroying Application Instances

Overview

Gist with Commands

Creating a Cluster

Deploying the Application

Discovering Chaos Toolkit Kubernetes Plugin

Terminating Application Instances

Defining the Steady-State Hypothesis

Pausing After Actions

Probing Phases and Conditions

Making the Application Fault-Tolerant

Destroying What We Created

4. Experimenting with Application Availability

Overview

Gist with Commands

Creating a Cluster

Deploying the Application

Validating the Application

Validating Application Health

Validating Application Availability

Terminating Application Dependencies

Destroying What We Created

5. Obstructing and Destroying Network

Overview

Gist with Commands

Creating a Cluster

Installing Istio Service Mesh

Deploying the Application

Discovering Chaos Toolkit Istio Plugin

Aborting Network Requests

Rolling Back Abort Failures

Making the Application Resilient to Partial Network Failures

Increasing Network Latency

Aborting All Requests

Simulating Denial of Service Attacks

Running Denial of Service Attacks

Destroying What We Created

6. Draining and Deleting Nodes

Overview

Gist with Commands

Creating a Cluster

Deploying the Application

Draining Worker Nodes

Uncordoning Worker Nodes

Making Nodes Drainable

Deleting Worker Nodes

Destroying Cluster Zones

Destroying What We Created

7. Creating Chaos Experiment Reports

Overview

Gist with Commands

Creating a Cluster

Deploying the Application

Exploring Experiments Journal

Creating Experiment Report

Creating a Multi-Experiment Report

Destroying What We Created

8. Running Chaos Experiments Inside a Kubernetes Cluster

Overview

Gist with Commands

Creating a Cluster

Deploying the Application

Setting up Chaos Toolkit in Kubernetes

Types of Experiment Executions

Running One-Shot Experiments

Running Scheduled Experiments

Running Failed Scheduled Experiments

Sending Experiment Notifications

Sending Selective Notifications

Destroying What We Created

9. Executing Random Chaos

Overview

Gist with Commands

Creating a Cluster

Deploying the Application

Deploying Dashboard Applications

Exploring Grafana Dashboards

Exploring Kiali Dashboards

Preparing for Termination of Instances

Terminating Random Application Instances

Disrupting Network Traffic

Preparing for Termination of Nodes

Terminating Random Nodes

Monitoring and Alerting with Prometheus

Destroying What We Created

10. What’s Next?

Until Next Time

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