The Discipline of Chaos Engineering

Last time, we introduced you to the idea of breaking things on purpose in order to build more reliable systems. By triggering failures intentionally in a controlled way, we gain confidence that our systems can deal with those failures before they occur in production.

A Primer on Automating Chaos

Automation is a must when operating and scaling cloud-based systems. The more servers and services there are to manage, the harder it gets for a team to fulfill their operational duties without proper automation in place. Automation is a workforce multiplier that helps us to manage our ever-growing infrastructure, but it can do much more than that. According to The Practice of Cloud System Administration, it also achieves the following goals: