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devops-playground-october-2024

Avoiding system failures with chaos engineering

Welcome to the DevOps Playground October 2024!

This month we're going to explore the world of chaos engineering, using Amazon's Fault Injection Service to see how we can simulate failures in our systems and make them more resilient.

The recording of the original live session is available at YouTube.

Pre-requisites

1. Laptop with internet access
2. For those joining us live on the evening, we'll provide:
   • a Panda identity to use for the workshop.
   • a remote shell session with the following installed
     • Terraform
     • AWS CLI along with access to an AWS account
   • Access to the DevOps Playground AWS account
3. If you're following along in your own time, you'll need:
   • An AWS account
   • Terraform installed

Live workshop environments

If you're running the workshop during the live session, you'll be provided with a set of credentials to use.

Agenda

We'll be performing the following activities:

Creating base infrastructure

1. Initial setup - create base infrastructure in AWS

Steps

1. Step 01 - first experiment with FIS, a simple single server setup.
2. Step 02 - second experiment, improving resilience.
3. Step 03 - third experiment, full resilience - test to destruction.
4. Step 04 - A look at the new lambda FIS functionality.

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