Awesome Chaos Engineering

A curated list of awesome Chaos Engineering resources.

What is Chaos Engineering?

Chaos Engineering is the discipline of experimenting on a distributed system in order to build confidence in the system’s capability to withstand turbulent conditions in production. - Principles Of Chaos Engineering website.

Contents

• Culture
• Books
• Education
• Notable Tools
• Papers
• Gamedays
• Blogs & Newsletters
• Conferences & Meetups
• Forums
• Twitter

Culture

• Principles Of Chaos Engineering
• Chaos Community
• Chaos Engineering
• 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
• Choose your own adventure: Chaos Engineering - Video & Slides
• AMA Chaos Engineering + DiRT
• SRECON17: Principles of Chaos Engineering
• 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
• 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
• The Road to Chaos - Velocity 2017- video & slides
• How Netflix DDoS’d Itself To Help Protect the Entire Internet
• 10 Years of Crashing Google
• Weathering the Unexpected
• 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
• QCon·Beijing 2017: The Practice of Failure Management and Fault Injection at Alibaba E-Commerce Platforms - video & speech draft (Chinese speech)
• 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
• 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
• Chaos Engineering At Ant Group

Books

• Chaos Engineering: Building Confidence in System Behavior through Experiment
• Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems -
• The Practice Of Cloud System Administration: Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems
• Antifragile Systems and Teams
• The InfoQ eMag: Chaos Engineering
• Learning Chaos Engineering
• Chaos Engineering: System Resilience in Practice
• Chaos Engineering: Crash test your applications
• Security Chaos Engineering: Gaining Confidence in Resilience and Safety at Speed and Scale
• Chaos Engineering Observability

Education

• A Chaos Engineering Bootcamp for O'Reilly Velocity 2017 - Slides & Source code
• 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.
• orchestrator - MySQL replication topology management and HA.
• kube-monkey - An implementation of Netflix's Chaos Monkey for Kubernetes clusters.
• Gremlin Inc. - Failure as a Service.
• Chaos Toolkit - A chaos engineering toolkit to help you build confidence in your software system.
• steadybit - A Chaos Engineering platform (SaaS or On-Prem) with auto discovery features, different attack types, user management and many more.
• 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
• 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.
• Toxiproxy - A TCP proxy to simulate network and system conditions for chaos and resiliency testing.
• Chaos engineering for Docker:
  • 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• kubethanos - Kills half of your randomly selected Kubernetes pods.
• go-fault - Fault injection middleware in Go
• 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.
• 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 Systems
• 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 Applications
• 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.
• Gremlin: What is a Chaos Day? - What is a Gameday according Gremlin.
• Gremlin: Why run a Chaos Day? - Reasons to run Gamedays according Gremlin.
• 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: Planning your own Chaos Day - Example of a Gameday with DynamoDB by 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.
• Site Reliability Engineering resources - A curated list of awesome Site Reliability and Production Engineering resources.
• SysAdvent - One article for each day of December, ending on the 25th article.
• 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.
• 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!
• 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.
• 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.
• LISA Conferences - Prominent conference about SysAdmin/DevOps/SRE.
• 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
• Chaos Engineering LinkedIn Group
• Chaos Engineering Slack Community
• CNCF Chaos Engineering Working Group
• CNCF Chaos Engineering Working Group Slack: #chaosengineering (slack.cncf.io)
• CNCF Chaos Engineering Working Group Github
• Chaos Toolkit Slack Community
• Litmus Chaos Engineering Slack Community

Contributing

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