SREcon18 EMEA

Chaos engineering is the discipline of experimenting on a distributed system in order to build confidence in the system’s capability to withstand turbulent conditions in production. Chaos engineering can be thought of as the facilitation of controlled experiments to unearth weaknesses.


Ana Medina leads a hands-on tutorial on chaos engineering, covering the tools and practices you need to implement chaos engineering in your organization. Everyone will be given a Kubernetes cluster with a demo application to perform a set of chaos engineering attacks using a variety of chaos engineering tools. You’ll identify new ways to use chaos engineering within your engineering organization and discover how other companies are using chaos engineering to create reliable distributed systems.


Pre-Reading List

1. Production-Ready Microservices by Susan Fowler—especially the section on chaos testing at Uber (p. 94)


Prerequisites, Skills, and Tools

1. A basic understanding of production environments and the infrastructure required to run systems
2. Experience with Linux, cloud infrastructure, hardware, networking, and systems troubleshooting