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So, why would you deliberately try to break your services? Chaos engineering does just that – deliberately terminating instances in your production environment. Online video streaming service Netflix was one of the first organizations to popularize the concept with their Chaos Monkey engine.

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Trying to improve the reliability of your Kubernetes deployment? Start with these 5 chaos experiments. Kubernetes 1.20 is scheduled to be released next week, and this version contains a number of amazing enhancements including graceful node shutdown, more visibility into resource requests, and snapshotting volumes. But the change generating the most buzz is the deprecation of Docker as a container runtime.

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Get started with Gremlin's Chaos Engineering tools to safely, securely, and simply inject failure into your systems to find weaknesses before they cause customer-facing issues. Kubernetes is a powerful open source platform to build scalable, reliable systems, designed to be extensible and customizable for many use cases. Kubernetes provides the ability to scale individual pods, swap out runtimes, and control access to objects using namespaces.

Modern applications are changing, and traditional testing practices are no longer up to the task. Learn more about the changing landscape of QA and how Chaos Engineering provides the necessary framework for testing modern applications. Chaos and Reliability Engineering techniques are quickly gaining traction as essential disciplines to building reliable applications. Many organizations have embraced Chaos Engineering over the last few years.