Chaos Engineering is the discipline of experimenting in identifying potential areas of failure before they express themselves in outages. Ana Margarita Medina is a Chaos Engineer and Developer Advocate at Gremlin, a chaos-as-a-service vendor that recently added Kubernetes support. She talks to Adam and Craig about the discipline, and her journey to it.

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Chatter of the week

• Shopify's Black Friday
• Craig's Black Friday

News of the week

• AWS announcements:
  • Managed node groups
  • EventBridge support in ECR
  • Sagemaker operators for Kubernetes
• Eirini 1.0 is here
• Security considerations for GKE by Maya Kaczorowski
  • Episode 8. with Maya Kaczorowski
• Managing a multi-site Cassandra cluster on multiple Kubernetes with CassKop / MultiCassKop by Seb Allamand
• Run Ansible Tower or AWX in Kubernetes or OpenShift with the Tower Operator by Jeff Geerling
• Everything I know about Kubernetes I learned from a cluster of Raspberry Pis by Jeff Geerling
• Prometheus OpenMetrics Integration
• Develop a Kubernetes controller in Java by Min Kim and Tony Ado
• Running Kubernetes locally on Linux with Microk8s by Ihor Dvoretskyi and Carmine Rimi
  • Episode 21, with Ihor Dvoretski
  • Episode 60, with Mark Shuttleworth
• Linux Foundation Cyber Monday sale
• Barrons says Kubernetes is the future of computing by Tae Kim

Links from the interview

• Chaos Engineering
  • Chaos Engineering: the history, principles, and practice
• Chaos Monkey
• Netflix Simian Army
• Fuzzing
• Site reliability engineering
• Google DiRT testing
  • Video: 10 years of crashing Google by Kripa Krishnan
• Ana's re:Invent talk
• Reggaetón
• #hugops
• Chaos Engineering Slack
• Gremlin
  • Gremlin Free
  • What is a Gremlin?
    • The Gremlins (Roald Dahl book)
    • Gremlins (1984 film)
• Ana Margarita Medina on Twitter