Chaos Engineering with Service Mesh

In a session of Test in Production, Christian Posta, Global Field CTO of Solo.io, discussed chaos engineering and service meshes. He explained that with distributed systems, there are cases that cannot be found deterministically or during lower environment testing. Chaos injection is used to prove the resiliency of these systems by injecting failure scenarios and observing their impact on the system's steady state. Solo.io has built a chaos experimentation engine called Gloo shot, which works with service meshes like Istio to enable controlled fault injection and telemetry analysis.