After meeting up with Gremlin at Kubecon I told myself; we should definitely take a closer look at the concept of Chaos Engineering. A field of which the name does not accurately reflect the meaning. After all, Chaos is subjective. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, the word Chaos means ‘a state of total confusion with no order.’ With Gremlin, you can run Chaos Engineering experiments against hosts, containers and more! To me, Gremlin  is an excellent tool to find your antidote to Chaos. Gremlin brings order and takes away confusion, nullifying Chaos. Picture yourself as a SRE in the following two situations:

One of the most important aspects of speeding up delivery is to make sure the quality of the deliveries are up to the highest possible standards. Automated testing can help reduce the number of escaped defects which helps in getting the trust of the business to more frequently deploy. From a micro-service perspective, automated tests are usually a combination of unit tests and integration tests. In unit tests we mock most of the external components away, while in integration testing we typically test against ‘real’ external components.