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Awesome Chaos Engineering

A curated list of Chaos Engineering resources.

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Culture

Principles Of Chaos Engineering

In 2 lists

Chaos Community

Chaos Engineering

In 2 lists

O'Reilly Velocity San Jose 2017: Precision Chaos

The Discipline of Chaos Engineering

Chaos Monkey for Fun and Profit

Fault Injection in Production: Making the case for resilience testing

Lord of Chaos - Becoming a Chaos Engineer

Chaos testing - Preventing failure by instigation

Orchestrated Chaos

AMA Chaos Engineering + DiRT

SRECON17: Principles of Chaos Engineering

In 2 lists

Chaos & Intuition Engineering at Netflix

Mastering Chaos - A Netflix Guide to Microservices

Too big to test: Breaking a production brokerage platform without causing financial devastation

Inside Azure Search: Chaos Engineering

Netflix, the Simian Army, and the culture of freedom and responsibility

FIT: Failure Injection Testing

The Netflix Simian Army

Automated Failure Testing

The Verification of a Distributed System by Caitie McCaffrey

In 2 lists

The Journey to Chaos Engineering begins with a single step - Bruce Wong and James Burns (Twilio)

Chaos Engineering by Lorin Hochstein

Aaron Rinehart - ChaoSlingr: Introducing Security based Chaos Testing

Chaos Engineering - Casey Rosenthal

How Netflix DDoS’d Itself To Help Protect the Entire Internet

10 Years of Crashing Google

In 2 lists

Weathering the Unexpected

(Krishnan)

In 3 lists

SRECON17: Breaking Things on Purpose

PuppetConf 2016: Chaos Patterns - Architecting for Failure in Distributed Systems

Ship More, Sink Less - Changing Chaos Engineering and Distributed Tracing

Cloudcast - Discipline of Chaos Engineering

Software Engineering Daily - Failure Injection with Kolton Andrus podcast

Responding to Failures in Playback Features with Haley Tucker podcast

"Antics, drift, and chaos" by Lorin Hochstein

re:invent 2017: Nora Jones Describes Why We Need More Chaos - Chaos Engineering, That Is

Failure Friday: Four Years On

Monkeys & Lemurs and Locusts, Oh my!

Practical Chaos Engineering

Chaos Day in the Met Office Cloud

Cloud Native and Chaos Engineering

Chaos Engineering with Kolton Andrus

Chaos Engineering: the history, principles, and practice

Embracing the Chaos of Chaos Engineering

Designing Services for Resilience: Netflix Lessons

Chaos Engineering: A cheat sheet

How to convince your boss and make them say “Yes!” to Chaos Engineering?

Why the World Needs More Resilient Systems

Chaos Architecture

Gremlin’s Tammy Bütow on the Business Side of Chaos Engineering

Kubernetes Chaos Engineering: Lessons Learned

Chaos Engineering: managing complexity by breaking things

Podcast:Database Chaos with Tammy Butow

LinkedOut: A Request-Level Failure Injection Framework

GOTO 2018 - Breaking Things on Purpose - Kolton Andrus

Why should Chaos be part of your Distributed Systems Engineering?

Brian Holt - Chaos Monkeys in Your Browser What Chaos Engineering Means For the Front End

Chaos Engineering: Why the World Needs More Resilient Systems

Orchestrating Chaos using Grab's Experimentation Platform

Breaking to Learn: Chaos Engineering Explained

Chaos Engineering Traps

Chaos Engineering - The Art of Breaking Things Purposefully

Disasterpiece Theater: Slack’s process for approachable Chaos Engineering

Taming chaos: Preparing for your next incident

In 2 lists

The Future of Chaos Engineering w/ Conde Nast

Chaos Engineering For People Systems w/ Dave Rensin of Google

Performing chaos engineering in a serverless world (AWS re:Invent 2019 CMY301)

Building Confidence in Healthcare Systems through Chaos Engineering

Break Your App before Someone Else Does

Preparing for Traffic Spikes with Chaos Engineering

Automating Chaos Engineering GameDays with Terraform

Postmortem Culture: Learning from failure

Problem Detection by John Allspaw

New Paradigms for the Next Era of Security

Cloud-Native Chaos Engineering

Building resilient services at Prime Video with chaos engineering

Making Chaos Part of Kubernetes/OpenShift Performance and Scalability Tests

Lucky Lotto, chaos engineering but for teams

Using Fault Injection Testing to Improve DoorDash Reliability

In 2 lists

Chaos Engineering At Ant Group

Books

Chaos Engineering: Building Confidence in System Behavior through Experiment

In 2 lists

Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems

Learn concepts of automating and operating at scale from Google experts.

In 4 listsDetails

The Practice Of Cloud System Administration: Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems

In 2 lists

Antifragile Systems and Teams

In 2 lists

The InfoQ eMag: Chaos Engineering

Learning Chaos Engineering

Chaos Engineering: System Resilience in Practice

Chaos Engineering: Crash test your applications

A book on how to design and execute controlled software failure experiments.

In 3 lists

Security Chaos Engineering: Gaining Confidence in Resilience and Safety at Speed and Scale

Chaos Engineering Observability

Education

Your First Chaos Experiment

Chaos Engineering 101

A Primer on Automating Chaos

Intro to Chaos Engineering

Learn the basics of the Chaos Toolkit

Build System Confidence with Chaos Engineering

How we break things at Twitter: failure testing

Run Chaos Experiments Without Risking Your Job

A Guide to Your First Chaos Day

Planning Your Own Chaos Day

How To Install Distributed Tensorflow on GCP and Perform Chaos Engineering Experiments

Monitoring Your Chaos Experiments

Increasing the Resilience of APIs with Chaos Engineering

3 key steps for running chaos engineering experiments

Exploring Multi-level Weaknesses using Automated Chaos Experiments

Chaos Monkey Guide for Engineers

Chaos Engineering for Serverless

Network Fire Drills with Chaos Engineering

Dev Ops Foundations: Chaos Engineering

Resilience Engineering: Short Course

The Chaos Engineering Collection

PenTester Academic

Consul and Chaos Engineering

Notable Tools

Chaos Monkey

A resiliency tool that helps applications tolerate random instance failures.

In 6 listsDetails

orchestrator

MySQL replication topology management and HA.

kube-monkey

An implementation of Netflix's Chaos Monkey for Kubernetes clusters.

In 2 lists

Gremlin Inc.

Failure as a Service.

Chaos Toolkit

A chaos engineering toolkit to help you build confidence in your software system.

In 3 lists

steadybit

A Chaos Engineering platform (SaaS or On-Prem) with auto discovery features, different attack types, user management and many more.

In 2 lists

PowerfulSeal

Adds chaos to your Kubernetes clusters, so that you can detect problems in your systems as early as possible. It kills targeted pods and takes VMs up and down.

drax

DC/OS Resilience Automated Xenodiagnosis tool. It helps to test DC/OS deployments by applying a Chaos Monkey-inspired, proactive and invasive testing approach.

Wiremock

API mocking (Service Virtualization) which enables modeling real world faults and delays

In 2 lists

MockLab

API mocking (Service Virtualization) as a service which enables modeling real world faults and delays.

Pod-Reaper

A rules based pod killing container. Pod-Reaper was designed to kill pods that meet specific conditions that can be used for Chaos testing in Kubernetes.

Muxy

A chaos testing tool for simulating a real-world distributed system failures.

In 2 lists

Toxiproxy

A TCP proxy to simulate network and system conditions for chaos and resiliency testing.

In 6 listsDetails

Pumba

Chaos testing and network emulation for Docker containers (and clusters).

Blockade

Docker-based utility for testing network failures and partitions in distributed applications.

chaos-lambda

Randomly terminate ASG instances during business hours.

Namazu

Programmable fuzzy scheduler for testing distributed systems.

Chaos Monkey for Spring Boot

Injects latencies, exceptions, and terminations into Spring Boot applications

Byte-Monkey

Bytecode-level fault injection for the JVM. It works by instrumenting application code on the fly to deliberately introduce faults like exceptions and latency.

GomJabbar

ChaosMonkey for your private cloud

Turbulence

Tool focused on BOSH environments capable of stressing VMs, manipulating network traffic, and more. It is very simmilar to Gremlin.

chaosblade

An Easy to Use and Powerful Chaos Engineering Toolkit.

In 4 listsDetails

KubeInvaders

Gamfied Chaos engineering tool for Kubernetes Clusters

Cthulhu

Chaos Engineering tool that helps evaluating the resiliency of microservice systems simulating various disaster scenarios against a target infrastructure in a data-driven manner.

VMware Mangle

Orchestrating Chaos Engineering.

Byteman

A Swiss Army Knife for Byte Code Manipulation.

Litmus

Framework for Kubernetes environments that enables users to run test suites, capture logs, generate reports and perform chaos tests.

In 5 listsDetails

Perses

A project to cause (controlled) destruction to a JVM application.

ChaosKube

chaoskube periodically kills random pods in your Kubernetes cluster.

Chaos Mesh

Chaos Mesh is a cloud-native Chaos Engineering platform that orchestrates chaos on Kubernetes environments.

In 4 listsDetails

failure-lambda

A small Node module for injecting failure into AWS Lambda using latency, exception, statuscode or diskspace.

aws-chaos-scripts

Collection of python scripts to run failure injection on AWS infrastructure

chaos-ssm-documents

Collection of AWS SSM Documents to perform Chaos Engineering experiments

aws-lambda-chaos-injection

A library injecting chaos into AWS Lambda. It offers simple python decorators to do delay, exception and statusCode injection and a Class to add delay to any 3rd party dependencies.

chaos-dingo

A tool to mess with Azure services using the Azure NodeJS SDK.

Chaos HTTP Proxy

Introduce failures into HTTP requests via a proxy server

Chaos Lemur

A self-hostable application to randomly destroy virtual machines in a BOSH-managed environment

Simoorg

Linkedin’s very own failure inducer framework.

react-chaos

A chaos engineering tool for your React apps

vue-chaos

A chaos engineering tool for your Vue apps

Chaos Engine

tool designed to intermittently destroy or degrade application resources running in cloud based infrastructure. Documentation

kubedoom

Kill Kubernetes pods by playing Id's DOOM.

In 3 lists

kubethanos

Kills half of your randomly selected Kubernetes pods.

go-fault

Fault injection middleware in Go

In 4 listsDetails

Proofdock's Chaos Engineering Platform

A chaos engineering platform that seamlessly integrates in Azure DevOps and has a focus on the Azure cloud platform.

Pystol

Pystol is a fault injection platform allowing users to execute fault injection Actions in cloud-native environments in a controlled and prescribed way.

AWSSSMChaosRunner

Amazon's light-weight open-source library for chaos engineering on AWS. It can be used for EC2, ECS (with EC2 launch type) and Fargate.

Kraken

Chaos and resiliency testing tool for Kubernetes and OpenShift.

kube-burner

A tool aimed at stressing Kubernetes clusters by creating or deleting a high quantity of objects.

Chaos Experimentation Framework

An extensible platform for infrastructure management including Chaos Engineering

NetHavoc

A Chaos Engineering Tool for Linux, K8s, Windows, PCF, Cloud, and Containers for injecting Resource, Infrastructure, Network, and Application failures.

gorm-sqlchaos

A runtime SQL manipulator for your Golang applications based on gorm.

Chaos Frontend Toolkit

A set of tools to apply Chaos Engineering to frontend

Mitigant

The Continuos Security Verification Platform, enables confidence in cloud security posture by leveraging security chaos engineering.

Retired tools

The Simian Army

A suite of tools for keeping your cloud operating in top form.

In 4 lists

ChaoSlingr

Introducing Security Chaos Engineering. ChaoSlingr focuses primarily on the experimentation on AWS Infrastructure to proactively instrument system security failure through experimentation.

Cloud Services

Testing Amazon Aurora Using Fault Injection Queries

Azure Chaos Studio

A managed fault injection service for Azure applications. See also Azure Fault Analysis Service for Azure Service Fabric applications.

Security Chaos Engineering for Cloud Services

Papers

Maelstrom: Mitigating Datacenter-level Disasters by Draining Interdependent Traffic Safely and Efficiently

Simple Testing Can Prevent Most Critical Failures: An Analysis of Production Failures in Distributed Data-Intensive…

Automating Failure Testing Research at Internet Scale

Principles of Antifragile Software

Why is random testing effective for partition tolerance bugs?

Chaos Engineering

A Platform for Automating Chaos Experiments

A Chaos Engineering System for Live Analysis and Falsification of Exception-handling in the JVM

TripleAgent: Monitoring, Perturbation And Failure-obliviousness for Automated Resilience Improvement in Java…

Lineage-driven Fault Injection

Antifragility is a Fragile Concept

Chaos Engineering Security

Security Chaos Engineering: A new paradigm for cybersecurity

Security Challenges around Chaos Engineering

CloudStrike: Security Chaos Engineering for Cloud Services

Observability and Chaos Engineering on System Calls for Containerized Applications in Docker

Maximizing Error Injection Realism for Chaos Engineering with System Calls

Chaos Engineering of Ethereum Blockchain Clients

Gamedays

Target: What is a Gameday?

Chaos Gamedays experience by Target.

Codecentric: Chaos Engineering Gamedays

Chaos Gamedays by Codecentric.

New Relic: How to run a Gameday?

Chaos Gamedays experience by New Relic.

Dius: Gamedays resources

Resources for getting started with GameDay and Chaos Engineering.

Gremlin: Gamedays

Resources for getting started with GameDay and Chaos Engineering.

Planning Your Own Chaos Day

Gremlin: How to run a Gameday?

Methodology to run Gamedays according Gremlin.

Gremlin DB: Breaking Dynamo DB

Example of a Gameday with DynamoDB by Gremlin.

Gremlin: Introduction to Gameday

What is a Gameday according Gremlin.

Gremlin: Inside Gremlin 2019 Gremlin Gamedays Roadmap

Chaos Gamedays experience by Gremlin.

Gremlin: What I lerned running the Chaos Lab with Kafka

Example of a Gameday with Kafka by Gremlin.

Chaos Toolkit: Chaos Engineering with Humans in the loop

Article about Chaos Gamedays.

GooCardless: All fun and games until you start with Gamedays

Article about Chaos Gamedays.

InfoQ: Gamedays - Achieving Resilience through Chaos Engineering

InfoQ Presentation with experiences about Chaos Gamedays.

Blogs & Newsletters

Netflix Technology Blog

Learn more about how Netflix designs, builds, and operates our systems and engineering organizations.

Production Ready

A mailing list about building resilient infrastructure and tools.

SRE Weekly

Weekly Site Reliability Newsletter.

In 2 lists

Site Reliability Engineering resources

A curated list of awesome Site Reliability and Production Engineering resources.

In 3 listsDetails

SysAdvent

One article for each day of December, ending on the 25th article.

In 2 lists

Gremlin Blog

Blogs on Chaos Engineering from Gremlin Inc.

O’Reilly Systems Engineering and Operations Newsletter

Weekly systems engineering and operations news and insights from industry insiders.

In 2 lists

LaunchDarkly Blog

Continuous delivery and feature flags blog.

Verica

Chaos engineering, security chaos engineering and continuous verification.

Proofdock

Reliability, resilience and chaos engineering with a focus on MS Azure

LitmusChaos Blog

Blogs on Chaos Engineering from LitmusChaos

ChaosEngineering.news

Chaos Engineering newsletter. All things chaos engineering, directly to your inbox!

In 2 lists

Chaos Mesh Blog

Blogs on Chaos Engineering from Chaos Mesh.

Chaos Experimentation Framework

Chaos Experimentation, an open-source framework built on top of Envoy Proxy

Squadcast

Blog on Site Reliability engineering.

In 2 lists

steadybit Blog

Blogs on Chaos Engineering, Resilience, SRE and OPS from steadybit.

Podcasts

Break Things On Purpose

Monthly podcast about Chaos Engineering presented by Gremlin Inc. Also available on Spotify, Google Play, and Stitcher.

Conferences & Meetups

Chaos Carnival

A global two-day virtual conference for Cloud Native Chaos Engineering.

Chaos Conf

A day of Chaos Engineering demos, expert advice, and connect with your peers putting chaos into practice at their companies.

SRECon Conferences

The official SRE conference.

In 2 lists

LISA Conferences

Prominent conference about SysAdmin/DevOps/SRE.

In 2 lists

O'Reilly Velocity Conference

Prominent conference about Systems Engineering/DevOps/SRE.

Chaos Engineering Community Meetup Group

Bay Area Meetup group for Chaos Engineers.

London Chaos Engineering Community

_ London Area Meetup group for Chaos Engineers.

Stockholm Chaos Engineering Meetup

Stockholm Meetup group for Chaos Engineers.

Chaos Engineering Community

A collection of meetups across the globe about Chaos Engineerings.

Conf42.com: Chaos Engineering

Chaos Engineering for practitioners and adopters - London UK, 23 Jan 2020.

Kubernetes Chaos Engineering Meetup Group India

India Meetup group for Chaos Engineers.

Forums

Chaos Community Google Group

An active mailing list and an excellent resource to ask questions and learn fine-grained details about DDD/CQRS.

In 23 listsDetails

Chaos Engineering LinkedIn Group

Chaos Engineering Slack Community

CNCF Chaos Engineering Working Group Github

Chaos Toolkit Slack Community

Litmus Chaos Engineering Slack Community

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