Chaos Engineering: Breaking Your Cluster to Make It Stronger
My dashboard is a wall of green. Pods running, replicas matched, CPU comfortable, no alerts firing. I look at it and feel that small dopamine hit of “everything is fine.” And for the most part, it is fine. The cluster has been up for weeks. Nothing has fallen over. That green wall is also the most dangerous thing in my homelab, because it tells me nothing about what happens when something goes wrong. It only tells me that, right now, nothing has. ...