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Chaos Engineering: Site reliability through controlled disruption
Chaos Engineering teaches you to design and execute controlled experiments that uncover hidden problems.
Summary
Auto engineers test the safety of a car by intentionally crashing it and carefully observing the results. Chaos engineering applies the same principles to software systems. In Chaos Site reliability through controlled disruption , you’ll learn to run your applications and infrastructure through a series of tests that simulate real-life failures. You'll maximize the benefits of chaos engineering by learning to think like a chaos engineer, and how to design the proper experiments to ensure the reliability of your software. With examples that cover a whole spectrum of software, you'll be ready to run an intensive testing regime on anything from a simple WordPress site to a massive distributed system running on Kubernetes.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
About the technology
Can your network survive a devastating failure? Could an accident bring your day-to-day operations to a halt? Chaos engineering simulates infrastructure outages, component crashes, and other calamities to show how systems and staff respond. Testing systems in distress is the best way to ensure their future resilience, which is especially important for complex, large-scale applications with little room for downtime.
About the book
Chaos Engineering teaches you to design and execute controlled experiments that uncover hidden problems. Learn to inject system-shaking failures that disrupt system calls, networking, APIs, and Kubernetes-based microservices infrastructures. To help you practice, the book includes a downloadable Linux VM image with a suite of preconfigured tools so you can experiment quickly—without risk.
What's inside
Inject failure into processes, applications, and virtual machines
Test software running on Kubernetes
Work with both open source and legacy software
Simulate database connection latency
Test and improve your team’s failure response
About the reader
Assumes Linux servers. Basic scripting skills required.
About the author
Mikolaj Pawlikowski is a recognized authority on chaos engineering. He is the creator of the Kubernetes chaos engineering tool PowerfulSeal, and the networking visibility tool Goldpinger.
Table of Contents
1 Into the world of chaos engineering
PART 1 - CHAOS ENGINEERING FUNDAMENTALS
2 First cup of chaos and blast radius
3 Observability
4 Database trouble and testing in production
PART 2 - CHAOS ENGINEERING IN ACTION
5 Poking Docker
6 Who you gonna call? Syscall-busters!
7 Injecting failure into the JVM
8 Application-level fault injection
9 There's a monkey in my browser!
PART 3 - CHAOS ENGINEERING IN KUBERNETES
10 Chaos in Kubernetes
11 Automating Kubernetes experiments
12 Under the hood of Kubernetes
13 Chaos engineering (for) people
Summary
Auto engineers test the safety of a car by intentionally crashing it and carefully observing the results. Chaos engineering applies the same principles to software systems. In Chaos Site reliability through controlled disruption , you’ll learn to run your applications and infrastructure through a series of tests that simulate real-life failures. You'll maximize the benefits of chaos engineering by learning to think like a chaos engineer, and how to design the proper experiments to ensure the reliability of your software. With examples that cover a whole spectrum of software, you'll be ready to run an intensive testing regime on anything from a simple WordPress site to a massive distributed system running on Kubernetes.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
About the technology
Can your network survive a devastating failure? Could an accident bring your day-to-day operations to a halt? Chaos engineering simulates infrastructure outages, component crashes, and other calamities to show how systems and staff respond. Testing systems in distress is the best way to ensure their future resilience, which is especially important for complex, large-scale applications with little room for downtime.
About the book
Chaos Engineering teaches you to design and execute controlled experiments that uncover hidden problems. Learn to inject system-shaking failures that disrupt system calls, networking, APIs, and Kubernetes-based microservices infrastructures. To help you practice, the book includes a downloadable Linux VM image with a suite of preconfigured tools so you can experiment quickly—without risk.
What's inside
Inject failure into processes, applications, and virtual machines
Test software running on Kubernetes
Work with both open source and legacy software
Simulate database connection latency
Test and improve your team’s failure response
About the reader
Assumes Linux servers. Basic scripting skills required.
About the author
Mikolaj Pawlikowski is a recognized authority on chaos engineering. He is the creator of the Kubernetes chaos engineering tool PowerfulSeal, and the networking visibility tool Goldpinger.
Table of Contents
1 Into the world of chaos engineering
PART 1 - CHAOS ENGINEERING FUNDAMENTALS
2 First cup of chaos and blast radius
3 Observability
4 Database trouble and testing in production
PART 2 - CHAOS ENGINEERING IN ACTION
5 Poking Docker
6 Who you gonna call? Syscall-busters!
7 Injecting failure into the JVM
8 Application-level fault injection
9 There's a monkey in my browser!
PART 3 - CHAOS ENGINEERING IN KUBERNETES
10 Chaos in Kubernetes
11 Automating Kubernetes experiments
12 Under the hood of Kubernetes
13 Chaos engineering (for) people
424 pages, Paperback
Published March 16, 2021
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August 1, 2025
The book is written in an entertaining way (which maybe sometimes makes some paragraphs become too verbose) and it provides plenty of guided step-by-step examples. There are plenty of tools and concepts that I was able to learn.
On another side, this book in my opinion suffers the fact that in IT almost nothing really stays up to date for a long time. This becomes even more true for books focused on specific implementations. I had to spend some time making sure that the examples could run on my Macbook with ARM architecture. The book was written when the architecture was still x64. Nothing Impossible to achieve, but it might take time to get things right.
On another side, this book in my opinion suffers the fact that in IT almost nothing really stays up to date for a long time. This becomes even more true for books focused on specific implementations. I had to spend some time making sure that the examples could run on my Macbook with ARM architecture. The book was written when the architecture was still x64. Nothing Impossible to achieve, but it might take time to get things right.
February 27, 2021
I learned a lot from this ebook
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Chaos Engineering: Site reliability through controlled disruption
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Chaos Engineering: Site reliability through controlled disruption
January 14, 2022
I think it is one of the best books in this topic. Good organized and go deep in practical way. I would recommend it for all who want to learn chaos engineering
July 14, 2022
Awesome book
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