Container zone redundancy

What this Scenario does

This Scenario drops network traffic between your containers in one availability zone and the rest of your infrastructure, simulating a complete zone outage. This forces your load balancers and service discovery mechanisms to redirect traffic to containers running in the remaining zones.

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Why run this Scenario?

• Demonstrate that your containerized services are truly zone-redundant, with replicas distributed across availability zones.
• Verify that service discovery and load balancing detect the zone outage and redirect traffic to healthy containers.
• Test whether your secondary zones have enough container capacity to handle the traffic surge from the failed zone.
• Ensure that container orchestration returns traffic to normal distribution when the zone comes back online.

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Expected outcome

When a zone fails, containers in secondary zones automatically absorb the traffic with no interruption in service.