Guardians of the Gateway: Keeping Chaos Out of Your Cloud Highway
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2025 · on Tuesday, 2025-06-10· at 16:15· Level 19 | Crystal Court II·
summary
Kong Gateway Operator resiliency is tested with concrete chaos experiments using Litmus Chaos: kill container and scale replicas scenarios target operator pods and gateway instances while asserting backend 200 responses. Tests simulate continuous operator restarts, CPU/latency-based autoscaling mismatches, and control-plane outages; results surface failures in operator reconciliation and traffic disruption. Cited numbers include Gartner’s ~50% unmanaged APIs and claimed ~80% of cloud apps affected by cascading API failures.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00API gateway challenges
- 3:26API reliability risks
- 6:41API management tools
- 10:35What is chaos engineering
- 12:40Litmus Chaos overview
- 15:08Chaos experiments for Kong Gateway
- 18:20Future plans
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