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The DevOps Toolkit: Kubernetes Chaos Engineering
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Delve into Kubernetes Chaos Engineering to discover system limits, simulate adverse effects, and improve resiliency. Learn about fault tolerance, high availability, and running experiments in a Kubernetes cluster.

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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.

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93 Lessons

Introduction To Kubernetes Chaos Engineering

9 Lessons

Get familiar with Kubernetes Chaos Engineering principles, readiness, examples, and process essentials.

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

Defining Requirements

4 Lessons

Walk through selecting, evaluating, and installing tools for chaos engineering in Kubernetes.

The Requirements Guiding the Choice of a Tool

Which Tool Should We Choose?

Defining Course Requirements

Installing Chaos Toolkit

Destroying Application Instances

11 Lessons

Go hands-on with chaos engineering by terminating application instances to understand resilience.

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

Experimenting with Application Availability

9 Lessons

Break down complex ideas to test and ensure application availability through chaos engineering experiments.

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

Obstructing and Destroying Network

14 Lessons

Dig deeper into network disruptions, using Istio, and resiliency strategies in Kubernetes.

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

Draining and Deleting Nodes

10 Lessons

Implement chaos engineering via workers and node management in Kubernetes clusters.

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

Creating Chaos Experiment Reports

8 Lessons

Build on generating insightful chaos experiment reports to enhance application and cluster reliability.

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

Running Chaos Experiments Inside a Kubernetes Cluster

12 Lessons

Step through chaos experiments in Kubernetes, deploying apps, configuring tools, and managing notifications.

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

Executing Random Chaos

14 Lessons

Unpack the core of executing random chaos experiments and deploying monitoring tools in Kubernetes.

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?

2 Lessons

Examine key chaos engineering skills, system resilience, and community resources for ongoing support.

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Darin Pope and

Viktor Farcic

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