From the course: DevOps Foundations: Chaos Engineering
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Chaos Monkey
- [Narrator] Chaos Monkey was first created back in 2011 by a team of engineers at Netflix to help test the resilience of their IT infrastructure. It intentionally disabled computers in Netflix production network to test how the remaining systems responded to the outage. Chaos Monkey is now part of a larger set of tool called the Simian Army. It is designed to simulate and test the response of various system failures and edge cases. The name Chaos Monkey is explained in the book "Chaos Monkeys" by Antonio Garcia Martinez. "Imagine a monkey entering a data center, "these farms of servers that host all the critical functions "of our online activities. "The monkey randomly rips cables, destroys devices "and returns everything that passes by the hand. "The challenge of IT managers is to design "the information systems they are responsible for "so that it can work despite these monkeys, "which no one ever knows when they arrive "or what they will destroy.
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