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Chaos Monkey is a resiliency tool that helps applications tolerate random instance failures.
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Chaos Monkey randomly terminates virtual machine instances and containers thatrun inside of your production environment. Exposing engineers tofailures more frequently incentivizes them to build resilient services.
See thedocumentation for info on how to use Chaos Monkey.
Chaos Monkey is an example of a tool that follows thePrinciples of Chaos Engineering.
This version of Chaos Monkey is fully integrated withSpinnaker, thecontinuous delivery platform that we use at Netflix. You must be managing yourapps with Spinnaker to use Chaos Monkey to terminate instances.
Chaos Monkey should work with any backend that Spinnaker supports (AWS, GoogleCompute Engine, Azure, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry). It has been tested withAWS,GCE, and Kubernetes.
To install the Chaos Monkey binary on your local machine:
go get github.com/netflix/chaosmonkey/cmd/chaosmonkeySee thedocs for instructions on how to configure and deploy Chaos Monkey.
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Chaos Monkey is a resiliency tool that helps applications tolerate random instance failures.