Introduction to Chaos Engineering 2: Planning, Designing, and Running Automated Chaos Experiments - ​O'Reilly 

Advance Materials

Documents

Video, PDF Slides and Notes
A complete set of the PDFs, notes and exercise sheets to accompany the course sessions.

Post-Course Materials

Further Reading

Chaos Engineering for the Business
This article describes how to avoid problems when explaining chaos engineering to non-technical stakeholders

Drift into Failure  |  Book by Sydney Dekker
This book is a great overview of how to explore system reliability and safety.
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Session Assignments

Before the Course

Read:
The Principles of Chaos
These are the guiding principles of chaos engineering and they set the stage for much of this first course.

Chaos Engineering book
This is the first published book on the subject of chaos engineering.

An Introduction to Game Days
A great introduction to the things to consider when exploring weaknesses in your sociotechnical system of software development using a Game Day.
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Chaos Toolkit Documentation
We will be using the free and open source Chaos Toolkit for our automated chaos experiments and so it's worth familiarising yourself with the tool before this session
Watch:
​"Setting up the Chaos Toolkit"
Instructions on how to set up your local system for using the free and open source Chaos Toolkit and Chaos Hub.
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"Chaos Engineering 101"
This talk by the instructor talks about concepts covered in session 1, and the motivation for automation that is the topic of session 2.

​"Why we need more chaos"
This talk by Nora Jones explains the motivations behind chaos engineering.

"Chaos Engineering"
This talk by Casey Rosenthal discusses the history and motivations behind chaos engineering.
Do:
The Chaos Toolkit tutorials
Access and run through the "Getting Started" tutorials as we will then be using this tooling throughout the session.

Install the Chaos Toolkit
We will be using the free and open source Chaos Toolkit for our automated chaos experiments and so please ensure you have installed the toolkit prior to this session.

​(Optional) Sign-up to the Course Slack
Many of the links and conversations during the course, and in-between sessions, will be shared in the #chaosengoreilly channel in the Chaos Toolkit Slack organisation. If you can it is worth joining this Slack team so that you can ask questions of the instructor before, during and even after the course.

Contact the Instructor

You are encouraged to contact the instructor before, during and after this course using any of the following methods:
Slack  |  Slack group and channel
The BEST way to contact the instructor between sessions is using the Chaos Toolkit slack team and by accessing the #chaosengoreilly channel

Twitter  |  Direct Message on Twitter
You can follow the instructor and send him Direct Messages with your questions on Twitter.

Email |  Email the instructor
You can also email questions to the instructor between sessions.