Getting Started with Chaos Engineering

Overview An introductory blog post that explains the fundamentals of chaos engineering, its benefits for reliability, and step-by-step guidance on getting started with chaos experiments on Google Cloud platforms.

Key Takeaways

• Understand the purpose and core principles of chaos engineering.
• Learn how to design, run, and analyze chaos experiments safely.
• Discover Google Cloud tools such as Cloud Scheduler, Cloud Functions, and the Chaos Engineering platform.
• Get best practices for integrating chaos into SRE and DevOps workflows.

Who Would Benefit

• Engineering managers and technical leaders seeking to improve system resilience.
• Site reliability engineers (SREs) and DevOps teams.
• Software architects and developers interested in proactive testing.

Frameworks and Methodologies

• Principles of the Simian Army and Netflix Chaos Monkey.
• Google Cloud's Chaos Engineering framework.