Kubernetes region evacuation

What this Scenario does

his Scenario drops all network traffic to your Kubernetes cluster in a specified cloud region, simulating a catastrophic regional outage. This forces your global load balancers, multi-cluster service mesh, or federation layer to redirect all traffic to Kubernetes clusters in your backup region(s).

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Why run this Scenario?

Large-scale infrastructure outages are an unfortunate reality. Power outages happen, storms flood data centers, and curious sharks will snack on data cables. This Scenario tests your systems to see how they handle an entire cloud region suddenly becoming unavailable.

• Verify that your backup Kubernetes clusters have sufficient node and pod capacity to absorb the full production workload.
• Validate that multi-cluster service mesh or federation correctly detects the regional outage and routes traffic.
• Test Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler behavior in backup clusters under sudden traffic increases.
• Ensure that Kubernetes-native storage and stateful workloads handle cross-region failover correctly.

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Expected outcome

When a region becomes unavailable, traffic automatically fails over to Kubernetes clusters in backup regions, and those clusters handle the increased load without impacting the user experience.