What is Chaos Engineering?
Deliberately injecting failures into a system to discover weaknesses before they cause incidents.
Chaos Engineering is the practice of intentionally causing controlled failures in a system to identify weaknesses before they manifest as real outages. It starts by defining a steady state, then injecting failures — killing pods, adding network latency, dropping packets, exhausting memory — and observing whether the system recovers correctly. Tools like LitmusChaos and Chaos Monkey automate experiments. Chaos Engineering builds confidence in your system's resilience.
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