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Disrupting Network Traffic

Explore how to disrupt network traffic in Kubernetes by targeting random Istio VirtualServices. Learn to create scripts that select and disrupt services, enhancing your chaos engineering skills and contributing to open-source projects.

What can we use to disrupt random network traffic?

We were terminating random Pods, no matter which application they belong to. Can we do something similar to networking? Can we disrupt a random network or, to be more precise, a random Istio VirtualService? Yes, we can, but not by using the out-of-the-box solution in Chaos Toolkit. At the time of this writing (April 2020), the Istio plugin does not allow us to operate on a random VirtualService. So, we cannot ...