On 2 July 2012 19:20, Cameron Byrne <cb.list6@gmail.com> wrote:
Make your chaos animal go after sites and regions instead of individual VMs.
CB
From a previous post mortem http://techblog.netflix.com/2011_04_01_archive.html
" Create More Failures Currently, Netflix uses a service called "Chaos Monkey<http://techblog.netflix.com/2010/12/5-lessons-weve-learned-using-aws.html>" to simulate service failure. Basically, Chaos Monkey is a service that kills other services. We run this service because we want engineering teams to be used to a constant level of failure in the cloud. Services should automatically recover without any manual intervention. We don't however, simulate what happens when an entire AZ goes down and therefore we haven't engineered our systems to automatically deal with those sorts of failures. Internally we are having discussions about doing that and people are already starting to call this service "Chaos Gorilla". *"* It would seem the Gorilla hasn't quite matured. Tony