CEO and Founder of Harness Inc, Jyoti Bansal, speaks about the importance of introducing Chaos Engineering into Software Delivery Life Cycle. The practice of Chaos Engineering has found many use cases in the past few years, but Harness has been innovating to apply chaos engineering to improve the developer efficiency by reducing the over all time spent in debugging the production issues, teaching the developers about the intricate design depencies during the QA pipelines and feeding back the reslilience data back into the developer pipelines through chaos experimentation.

Jyoti Bansal

Improving Reliability and Developer Efficiency through Chaos Engineering

At most technical conferences, you expect to hear technical talks in which technological solutions are presented to your technical problems. In a way, this is similar to fighting fire with fire and hoping to extinguish your problems. Whether you are struggling with data protection, security incidents or runtime performance of your services, all your concerns can be addressed through technical solutions. However, just because you can do something does not mean you always should. Anais is here to discuss how technical problems can be addressed through better writing and, subsequently, how investing in the writing skills of your engineers can save you time and money. This does not only include documentation but also runbooks, blog posts, guides, use cases, post-mortems and more.

Anais Urlichs

Fighting fire with fire: Why we cannot always prevent technical issues with more tech

Flipkart is the largest e-commerce platform in India. The Flipkart infrastructure follows a hybrid cloud strategy where our internal cloud platform powers a significant part of our workloads along with public clouds.  This cloud platform is powered by our multi-DC infrastructure that provides virtual machines and bare metals servers.  While a large part of our serverless workloads is on Kubernetes, the large fleets of VMs and BMs power our stateful data platforms and clusters. As part of our drive to achieve better resilience with chaos experiments, we explored several chaos tools.  What we discovered was that most of the tools while working well with cloud-native workloads, were not suitable for running chaos experiments against stateful workloads running on our servers.  This led us to invest in building a Chaos Platform that can perform chaos experiments against our server fleets.  Our strategy was to completely use existing open-source tools including a few existing chaos products, and mix and match different tools, and integrate them to build the features that we needed for our chaos drills. The talk will open up with an introduction to chaos practices, requirements, and how we evaluated various open-source products for our chaos needs. Then we will move on to our VM Chaos solutions and how we brought together different open-source tools to build our own Chaos platform.

Safeer CM

Rohini Choudhary

Building a Chaos Platform for Virtual Machines with OpenSource Tools

Mandi Walls

Plan for Unplanned Work: Game Days with Chaos Engineering

In this session we talk about injecting faults on serverless compute like Google Cloud Run or AWS Lambda. How to develop reliable systems when using serverless infrastructure on cloud.

Tarun Khosla

Chaos on Serverless Computing

LitmusChaos is the CNCF incubating project that delivers the end to end capability to run chaos experiments around cloud native workloads and build a simple and clear path the the resilience of critical applications. LitmusChaos itself has evolved over a period of time and it now serves the basic needs of chaos engineering to QA teams and SREs. In this session, Karthik, who is the co-creator and maintainer of LitmusChaos, will provide the basic introduction to Chaos Engineering and introduce the LitmusChaos tool and all it's feature. The session includes a live demo to show the creation of the new resilience probes, creation of chaos experiment and measuring the resilience of a target business service.

Karthik S

LitmusChaos 101

Speaker intends to delve into the technical aspects of seamlessly applying Chaos principles across all layers of the system, spanning from deployment to network management. Discover how having an pragmatic approach and solution for chaos management, offers an efficient pathway to achieve the desired state of resiliency. 

We'll also highlight Deloitte's solution, emphasising its technical capabilities and seamless integration with Harness. By examining the technical intricacies of this collaboration, attendees will gain insights into how to build a comprehensive Resiliency approach. For the audience it will be a focused exploration of practical techniques for orchestrating and optimising the entire software delivery pipeline 

 

Key Takeaways from the Session: 

1. Technical insights into Going Beyond Infrastructure. 
2. Practical chaos management techniques across layers
3. Possibilities of technical collaboration with Harness.

Manish Dave

Naresh Babu B V

Chaos Beyond Infrastructure

In this lightening talk, Arko will show the live demo of inserting chaos experiments into a CD pipeline, setting the expectations and measuring the results against the expectations. When the resilience is not upto the mark, the changes delivered through the pipeline will automatically be reverted. This demo will be shown using a Harness Chaos Experiment in Harness CD pipeline. Audience will learn the process of automation of resilience measurement in the CD pipelines and the best practices around securely calling the APIs during this automation.

Arkajyoti Mukherjee

Chaos Experimentation in CD Pipelines - Live Demo

Retailers are transforming their business to give their customers personalied shopping experiences. Infrastructure modernization plays a vital role in improving service reliability and providing better business resiliency and agility. In this session, we will cover how Chaos Engineering can provide a future-proof cloud-native platform that consistent, highly available and reliable.

GaneshKumar Kasiviswanathan

Chaos Engineering: Ensuring Resilience for Future-Proof Retail Edge Platforms

Haven’t ran a chaos test before? We’ll have a sandbox environment on Kubernetes and a sample application on which you can test and build resilience. Whether you are a developer, SRE, product manager, or CEO, you can walk away having successfully tested the resilience of an application. Plus, we will be offering our new Harness chaos engineering certification course!

Neelanjan Manna

Udit Gaurav

Building Resilience with Chaos Engineering: A Hands-On Workshop with Kubernetes and Certification Opportunity

Reliability management has been a subject of Ops and SREs. So far. But with platform engineering taking the center stage, developers are expected to help with designing more reliable systems, help with recovering faster from outages and automate the process of recovery when possible etc. This puts the developers in an interesting position. The new questions being asked by developers is do we have the right parameters to observe with which we can infer critical logic during incident responses? Developers do not want to experiment with these parameters in production, they of course need a dev environment. In this session, we will discuss the challenges and new approaches for developers in managing reliability.

Uma Mukkara

Get your developers reliability ready: SLIs and SLOs in Lower Environments

Nicolas Chaillan, the first Chief Software Officer for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force, renowned for spearheading innovations in federal cybersecurity, will present on 'Resilience and Reliability in the Federal Space,' highlighting the growing importance of these aspects in government technology. Leveraging his extensive background, including his role as a Special Advisor for Cloud Security and DevSecOps at the Department of Defense, Nicolas will outline effective strategies to fortify cyber defenses and operational robustness in federal sectors. The talk will also encompass the emerging influence of Generative AI (GenAI) in these areas, providing insights into how GenAI integration is not just revolutionizing government operations but is crucial in enhancing system resilience and reliability, thus shaping a more secure and dependable future in the fast-evolving technological landscape.

Nicolas M Chaillan

Resilience and Reliability in the Federal Space — Why It's More Important Than Ever

Thwarting cyber attacks in the current rapidly evolving threat landscape requires cyber resilience strategies. However, cyber resilience is hugely conceptual and theoretical; the industry is far behind in demonstrating cyber resilience capabilities. These capabilities have the potential to frustrate, degrade, and ultimately stop attacks while ensuring minimum impact on business operations. Enabling cyber resilience is even more critical in cloud-native infrastructure; however, there are several bottlenecks that hinder adoption, including the role of cloud service providers and the need to adopt an engineering-focused approach. In this session, we'll discuss these bottlenecks, provide practical approaches, and highlight how security chaos engineering allows enterprises to overcome these challenges.

Kennedy Torkura

Bringing the Cyber Resilience Revolution to the Cloud

Chaos Engineering is often considered to be only for large organizations. You know, these organizations that seem to be on the edge of all the latest trends. However, this could not be further from the truth. Chaos Engineering is now mature enough that it can be implemented by most teams in their own ways. In this session, we will explore various topologies, KPi and tooling by which Chaos Engineering can be gradually brought into organization and teams.

Sylvain Hellegouarch

Embedding Chaos Engineering into your organization doesn’t have to be complicated

Resilience modeling guides teams to anticipate scenarios before they lead to incidents. Teams prioritize these scenarios as hypotheses to test through experimentation. A resilience model documents the scenarios that may impact a system and the controls in place to guard against such impact. Experimentation allows observation of these controls to understand their effectiveness in detecting and preventing incidents. In this session, you will learn how to build a resilience model to create valuable hypotheses that allow you to maximize the value of your chaos engineering experiments.

Gunnar Grosch

Enhancing Hypothesis Development Through Resilience Modeling

In response to the rapid scaling of IoT digital products, the Electrolux Digital Product Organization has successfully expanded the scope of Chaos Engineering practices. Their solution empowers developers to enhance the reliability of highly distributed and scaled systems that run globally, handling billions of events daily. During this talk, Electrolux will share how to handle this significant challenge to make this a daily responsibility, especially when you have only one Chaos Engineer for 200 developers in your organization.

Long Zhang

Kristina Kondrashevich

3 Steps on How to Bring Chaos Engineering as a daily Responsibility for Highly Complex Systems

Presentation on using chaos engineering practices to validate and right size workloads so developers don't over-provision or under-provision resources leading to poor reliability and outages.

Matthew Schillerstrom

Leveraging Chaos Engineering to Reduce Cloud Cost

In this session, we will share insights on how Intuitis validating resiliency at scale by leveraging company wide Game Day events and how other teams can apply similar processes & automations to achieve continuous resilience at scale.   We will demonstrate how teams can use our integration patterns using various CNCF projects (LitmusChaos, ArgoWorkflow, ArgoCD, Argo Application Sets) to execute chaos both within a continuous pipeline or ad-hoc during game days.  We will share how we enabled 1000s of Intuit developers to think about resiliency as part of design and implementation and also share our learnings on how to execute company-wide game days to reduce outages in production in a controlled manner.

Shan Anwar

Harnessing a Culture of Continuous Resilience

Saurabh has beeen running chaos experiments for measuring the resilience of the Harness SaaS platform when changes are delivered using CD pipelines. Saurabh also often runs regular gamedays on the pre-production test bed. In this lightening talk, Saurabh will layout the general considerations and best practices to plan and run gamedays. He will also go into the details of the typical challenges in running the gamedays and the typical false positives that need to be kept in consideration for the optimum output of the gamedays.

Saurabh Pahuja

Raj Babu Das

Learnings from running Chaos Gamedays on Harness

How we deal with chaos engineering at iFood, showing our infrastructure and processes, and presenting a practical case of problem resolution - how we find and deal with it

Bianca Veit

Daniel Moreira Cardoso

Juliana Lara

Employing Chaos Engineering at iFood

Raj and Vedant will delve into the realm of creating new resilience insights using Harness Custom Dashboards. Running chaos experiments includes the consideration of many dimensions such as who is running, where and what faults and finding out are we achieving the required outputs during the long course of these runs.  For any operational admin or QA pipeline owner it is critical to know the progress being made against the plan as far as the reliability is concerned so that course corrections can be made either in changing the chaos experiments themselves or by accelerating the chaos runs if demanded. For this, one should be able to create and deliver deep insights to the team and management around chaos experimentation and resilience outputs. In this session, the speakers will introduce the custom dashboarding capability to chaos and show some live examples.

Vedant Shrotria

Raj Vadheraju

Chaos Dashboarding : Build your own reliability insights in DevOps using Harness Chaos

Vidhu Bhala, Vice President, QA and Delivery Efficiency at Standard Chartered Bank speaks about the importance of introducing Chaos Engineering into QA to control the reliability of the production systems. Vidhu’s team has been practicing chaos engineering for a few years now to measure the resilience of their applications on the QA test beds. In this keynote, Vidhu explores the challenges, best practices and examples of measuring the resilience and spotting the weaknesses of cloud native applications.

Vidhu Bhala RV

Using Chaos Engineering to improve the reliability of cloud native applications

The evolution of software development is not only marked by technological advancements but also a paradigm shift in the mindset of professionals involved. This session delves into the transformation from traditional Quality Assurance to a Quality Engineering mindset, emphasizing its crucial role in today’s micro-application development landscape. The increasing complexity brought about by micro-applications necessitates a focus on efficiency, productivity, and reliability. Importantly, these should be achieved without any compromise on user experience.

Abilash Hari

How to Evolve from Quality Assurance to Quality Engineering

Multi-domain impacts of chaos theory and its implementation are currently the real challenge amongst SRE. We tend to apply the same theory in different context but fail to understand the business gains.  Applying chaos to any landscape requires an understanding of the real faults that are happening or have happened. The SRE needs to study and understand the problems and its impacts on application, network, infrastructure and most importantly the loss that is/can be caused. Learn how to make chaos a part of pipeline with a daily run and help impacted teams mitigate the faults.

Tejendra Bhandari

The Business Impact of Multi-Domain Chaos Scenarios

As giants of the tech world, our Salesforce.com environments are colossal. Thanks to the centralized Chaos Engineering platform, SteadyBit accelerated our testing pace, ushered in the 'Shift Left' revolution, and amplified error testing like never before. From AWS showdowns to Kubernetes battles to custom challenges, our chaos tests leave no stone unturned. And that's not all: we set the gold standard by rigorously testing new cloud regions to roll out the red carpet for our customers and ensure they always experience peak performance.

Benjamin Wilms

Krishna Palati

Redefining Resilience: Unleashing the Power of Chaos Testing

PayPal's Chaos Engineering journey commenced in the latter half of 2021 and is progressing towards the goal of achieving scale by the year 2023. PayPal encompasses various subsidiaries such as Venmo and Braintree, each contributing different infrastructure practices, including the integration of public cloud services. In 2023, the team is expanding its efforts beyond PayPal Core, leveraging the knowledge and experience gained over the past two years to address similar challenges. A recent collaboration with Braintree has provided an opportunity for the team to apply Chaos engineering principles, enhancing the reliability of their systems. This session will unveil their journey.

Sharath Reddy Mareddy

Thoshith Ravi

Karthick Sundaram

Scaling Chaos Engineering at PayPal

Raj Thomas, Principal Enterprise Architect for Digital Technology at United Airlines speaks about the onboarding and successful implementation of Chaos Engineering by his team where they are trying to provide Chaos experiments as a service to all the developers. Raj and and his team have been using Harness Chaos Engineering to build resilience into their applications through systematic chaos experimentation in their Harness CD pipelines. Raj brings out the details of ChaosHub, a native capability at Harness to easilily create chaos experiments and best practices to automate the onboarding of chaos practice to the new applications in an effective way.

Raj Thomas

Best practices learnt in onboarding Harness Chaos Engineering at United

AI has revolutionized each business process and the session will discuss how AI can enable resiliency Engineering to be more autonomous.

Jaiprakash Pherwani

Leveraging AI in Resiliency Engineering

Hear directly from industry leaders and experts as they share the latest advances in Chaos Engineering, the way forward for achieving resiliency and more.

Adrian Hornsby

Chaos Panel

Are you using chaos tools like ChaosMesh or Litmus, but want to migrate to AWS Fault Injector Simulator? Now you can! In this talk we will see how to integrate chaosmesh or litmus experiments into our AWS environment with FIS, in addition to seeing the potential of combining these tools.

Eduardo Spotti

How to Integrate ChaosMesh or Litmus Experiments into Your AWS Environment

This session will break the myth that Chaos Engineering is a practice which is important for SRE(s). Here we will embrace the concept of chaos as a powerful tool for innovation and adaptation. In this talk we will discuss the strategies how we can incorporate chaos engineering principles while writing code/developing application. We will discuss the best practices and some practical examples around how we do that at AWS, how we build resilient cloud offerings by thinking chaos while development cycle apart from doing chaos testing.

Dhiraj Kumar Jain

Embracing Chaos Engineering for Software Development

This presentation delves into the art of advocating for Chaos Engineering in environments where conservative leadership prevails. It's tailored to address the challenges of introducing progressive tech practices in risk-averse settings. Attendees will learn effective communication strategies to convey the significance and benefits of Chaos Engineering, overcoming misconceptions and resistance from traditional management structures. The talk will include actionable insights, real-world case studies, and a guide to navigating the cultural and organizational hurdles in advocating for innovative tech solutions.

Kyle Shelton

Implementing Chaos Engineering in a Risk Averse Culture

This talk explores the foundational principles and actionable strategies to fortify teams against disruptions and challenges. It delves into the role of organizational culture as the cornerstone for fostering adaptability, collaboration, and continuous learning. The session also explores key strategies for promoting resilience within DevOps teams. From transparent communication and incident post-mortems to cross-functional collaboration and automated recovery, each strategy is dissected to provide practical insights and implementation guidance.

Oluebube Princess Egbuna

Strategies for Fostering a Culture of Resilience in DevOps

5g is here but is it really Cloud Native?  Part of being cloud native is being self-healing which is accomplished by good chaos testing. We will demonstrate capturing real 5g traffic within a 5g core (open5gs) in Kubernetes while running chaos tests using the Litmus Chaos engineering platform and the CNF Testsuite.

W Watson

Denver Williams

Taylor Carpenter

Chaos Testing for the 5G Era

The IT Operations group at BambooHR is on a mission to set people free to do great work. David Peterson leads the rockstar group, delivering on that mission for everyone who touches BambooHR, from internal stakeholders to the company’s end users. But creating a seamless experience for your customers doesn’t come easy, and it doesn’t happen overnight. Join us for a panel discussion with the leaders of BambooHr’s IT Operations team, where we explore their journey of building engineering resilience.

Aaron Lober

David Peterson

Jordan Jones

Weston Sundwall

BambooHR & Blameless: Setting People Free To Do Great Work

In this session, Raj will explore the typical challenges in expanding chaos engineering adoption within an organisation. The challenges typically include security, controlling human errors and ability to identify who did what. Raj will then introduce the new capability in Harness Chaos Engineering- the Chaos Guard. The session take late a few live examples of the adoption challenges and demonstrate how to overcome them using Harness ChaosGuard.

Expand chaos in your organisation easily with Harness Chaos Guard

Running chaos experiments and asserting the resilience on GCP require a special knowledge of how GKE nodes behave. In this session, Udit will describe the details of constructing node chaos experiments on GCP, how to make sure the target nodes are correctly configured and how to measure the steady state. The considerations for constructing the resilience probes on GCP while running node based chaos requires careful measurement of certain states of Kubernetes. Udit will show a live demo of creating a resilience probe and using that probe in a chaos experiment that includes node based faults.

Art of Chaos testing - Learn how to build resilience tests on GCP

In the world where Kubernetes reigns supreme as the orchestration king, ensuring the resilience and reliability of your deployments is crucial. Chaos Engineering plays a pivotal role in unearthing system vulnerabilities before they wreak havoc in production environments. Among the toolkit available for this practice, Chaos Mesh emerges as a stellar open-source, cloud-native solution, tailored for Kubernetes.

This hands-on session aims to peel back the layers of ChaosMesh, guiding attendees through its architecture, features, and real-world application scenarios. We will commence with an introduction to ChaosMesh, explaining how it stands out in the chaos engineering ecosystem and its role in fortifying Kubernetes deployments. Following a hands-on demo, we will traverse through various fault injection scenarios, displaying how ChaosMesh can mimic system abnormalities in a controlled manner, and illustrate its ease of integration with DevOps workflows.

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