Fast track to chaos engineering

Russ Miles (ChaosIQ)

9:00—17:00 Monday, 4 November—Tuesday, 5 November

Location: M3

Participants should plan to attend both days of training course. Note: to attend training courses, you must be registered for a Platinum or Training pass; does not include access to tutorials on Tuesday.

Build confidence in your systems' behavior and identify weaknesses before they happen. Join Russ Miles on a deep dive into chaos engineering and learn how to apply it in your organization.

What you'll learn, and how you can apply it

Learn to establish a culture, practice, architecture, and design that's ready for chaos engineering
Be able to design, build, and execute careful and controlled chaos engineering experiments to learn about weaknesses in your complex production systems
Discover different levels of experiments to learn about different weaknesses
Explore real-world examples and samples to see the concepts of chaos engineering in action

Who is this presentation for?

You're a software developer, site reliability engineer, or DevOps practitioner

Level

Intermediate

Hardware and/or installation requirements:

A laptop with the Chaos Toolkit installed
Access to GitHub

Outline

What is chaos engineering and why do I need it?
Building confidence in complicated and complex systems
Understanding and working with the emergent and novel with Cynefin, chaos, and microservices
Working with experiments and chaos in practice
Establishing prerequisites to chaos engineering
Architecting and designing for chaos
Chaos and testing
Building a hypothesis for a chaos engineering experiment
Minimizing the impact of experiments: Understanding your experiment’s blast radius, scope, and opt-out
Designing and implementing steady state monitoring for your system
Defining a chaos engineering experiment
Defining steady state probes
Defining experimental methods
Defining continuous state probes
Defining close state probes
Working with other people’s systems
Running an experiment manually
Establish a real system that can be subjected to chaos experiments
Automating your first experiment using the open source Chaos Toolkit and platform
Chaos at scale
Chaos and observability
Chaos and governance

About your instructor

Russ Miles is CEO of ChaosIQ.io, where he and his team build commercial and open source products and provide services to companies applying chaos engineering to build confidence in the resilience of their production systems. Russ is an international consultant, trainer, speaker, and author. His most recent book, Antifragile Software: Building Adaptable Software with Microservices, explores how to apply chaos engineering to construct and manage complex, distributed systems in production with confidence.