The Glorious Art of Destroying Things on Purpose: an Introduction to Chaos Engineering

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Introduces chaos engineering as disciplined experiments that build confidence by doing real injections: uses chaos toolkit with k6 load and Kubernetes drivers to terminate a random pod while probing an API with 10 virtual users for 10 seconds. Defines a steady state hypothesis (five pods, zero error budget) and shows results: killing one of five pods passes, killing two fails, and detection takes about 3.7 seconds. Demo outputs a journal and recommends fixing load‑balancer retries and adding monitoring.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 2:11Definition of Chaos Engineering
3. 10:37Measuring the Outcome
4. 14:42Chaos Toolkit
5. 17:32Kubernetes Cluster
6. 37:16Debrief
7. 43:12Could You Share a Link to the Repository with Code Which You Used in Your Demo

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