Learning Chaos Engineering: Discovering and Overcoming System Weaknesses Through Experimentation, Paperback

Learn why, when, and how to create real-world, practical chaos engineering experiments through Game Days and automation. With this practical book, software developers and system administrators will learn how to become chaos engineers. You'll learn ways to approach and adopt the discipline, how to prepare for and conduct successful chaos experiments manually, and how to work towards Continuous Chaos through automation.

On the surface, Chaos Engineering can look like a deceptively simple set of practices, but the devil is in the details. This book helps you adopt the mindset of Chaos Engineering, successfully plan and learn from Game Days, and finally learn the tools for automation and collaboration necessary to scale out and mature your own organization's Chaos Engineering capability.

Learn why, when, and how to create real-world, practical chaos engineering experiments through Game Days and automation. With this practical book, software developers and system administrators will learn ways to approach and adopt the discipline, how to prepare for and conduct successful chaos experiments manually, and how to work towards Continuous Chaos through automation.

Russ Miles has been working as a chaos engineer at various companies (both startups and enterprises) for the past 3 years. He is part of the Chaos Collective, an expert group founded by Casey Rosenthal who runs 1-day workshops for companies looking to learn about chaos engineering and beginning to establish their own in-house chaos engineering capability. Russ has been teaching technical topics, as well as offering consultancy, worldwide for the past 15 years. His current courses include a popular public 3-day course on chaos engineering that has most recently been run in London. He also speaks internationally. He has founded and continued to build a community around the free and open source Chaos Toolkit and Hub projects.