Questions tagged [resilience-testing]
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How can I simulate failure of an AWS Availability Zone?
In order to test that our load balancers and Multi-AZ RDS instances are working the way I'd expect them to, I'd like to simulate failure of an AWS Availability Zone.
Short of locating one of the datacenters and setting fire to it (which probably…
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ChaosMonkey for k8s?
Is there a kind of tool like ChaosMonkey specific for k8s that kill nodes and pods during office hours to train the team how to deal with issues and to harden the k8s cluster?
It is possible to create a script or program that kills random PODs, but…
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Jmeter simulating traffic and avoiding 429
I am using Jmeter to investigate the performance and capacity needs of a few web services. Jmeter sends traffic to the web-facing url (served by Nginx), with a rising rate, to see where the service fails. At the moment, this traffic is generated…
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Apply resilience-testing in a company (to promote DevOps)? If true, why, how and what effect does it have on the Engineers? If false, why not?
Back in the day this Q&A was created.
ChaosMonkey is a tool that is able to stop random services on a platform in a certain time period. The goal of this is to get a stable platform that is fault tolerant. If this happens during the day when most of…
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Is the use of ChaosMonkey restricted to AWS?
According to this documentation, ChoasMonkey seems to be restricted to AWS:
Get Auto Scaling Tools
You can use the new AWS CLI tools:
$ sudo pip install awscli
Is it possible to use ChaosMonkey on other platforms as well?
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