Cloud-Native Chaos Engineering Practice Guide

1. Introduction to Chaos Engineering

Chaos engineering is an experimental methodology for distributed systems that aims to build confidence in a system’s ability to withstand unpredictable production conditions.

2. Chaos Mesh Practice

We built a complete chaos engineering platform based on Chaos Mesh, covering fault injection across network, Pod, and node dimensions.

Core Example: Network Delay Fault Injection

apiVersion: chaos-mesh.org/v1alpha1
kind: NetworkChaos
metadata:
  name: network-delay
spec:
  action: delay
  mode: one
  selector:
    namespaces: ["production"]
    labelSelectors:
      app: payment-service
  delay:
    latency: "500ms"
    jitter: "100ms"
  duration: "5m"