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Doug Barth
September 12, 2014
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Failure Friday: Start Injecting Failure Today!
DevOpsDays Toronto 2014
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September 12, 2014
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Transcript
9/15/14 @dougbarth DEVOPSDAYS TORONTO 2014 Failure Friday!
9/15/14 FAILURE FRIDAY! Dev Ops
9/15/14 FAILURE FRIDAY! DevOps Engineer
9/15/14 “DO NOT FEAR FAILURE” BY TOMASZ STASIUK
9/15/14 FAILURE FRIDAY! How is babby PagerDuty formed?
9/15/14 FAILURE FRIDAY!
9/15/14 Designed for reliability FAILURE FRIDAY! Downstream providers fail 3
phone providers 3 email providers 6 SMS providers PagerDuty providers fail 2 cloud providers 3 data centers
9/15/14 Hung up on details FAILURE FRIDAY! Bugs in exceptional
code paths Systems not recovering as quickly as expected What is normal when things are abnormal?
9/15/14 FAILURE FRIDAY!
9/15/14 Simian Army FAILURE FRIDAY! Chaos Monkey Latency Monkey Chaos
Gorilla Chaos Kong “WP7WALLPAPER_EVIL_MONKEY_09” BY SKYLER817
9/15/14 Keep it simple FAILURE FRIDAY! “KISS BAND MEMBER CUPCAKES”
BY CLEVER CUPCAKES
9/15/14 Process FAILURE FRIDAY! “HOW TO DRAW AN OWL” BY
CHESTER
9/15/14 Get buy in FAILURE FRIDAY! “ANGRY BOSS” BY KAUSHAL
KARKHANIS
9/15/14 Schedule FAILURE FRIDAY! 1 hour recurring meeting Developers &
Operations List of attacks and identify victim Finish as much as possible
9/15/14 Before starting FAILURE FRIDAY! Disable cron jobs & CM
system Announce the start Open up relevant dashboards Leave alarms enabled
9/15/14 Attacks FAILURE FRIDAY! Test a single host and then
DC 5 minutes Return to a working state Stop if things break
9/15/14 Keep a log FAILURE FRIDAY! Keep track of actions
taken Times are super important Also track discoveries and TODOs Share dashboards/metrics Chat rooms make this easy
9/15/14 Graphs are awesome FAILURE FRIDAY!
9/15/14 Finishing up FAILURE FRIDAY! Sound the all clear Enable
crons & CM Move TODOs to issue tracker
9/15/14 Attack Strategies FAILURE FRIDAY! “UNICORN ATTACK!” BY SAM HOWZIT
9/15/14 FAILURE FRIDAY! SERVICE STOP CASSANDRA
9/15/14 FAILURE FRIDAY! SHUTDOWN -R NOW
9/15/14 FAILURE FRIDAY! IPTABLES -I INPUT 1 -P TCP --DPORT
9160 -J DROP IPTABLES -I INPUT 1 -P TCP --DPORT 7000 -J DROP ! IPTABLES -I OUTPUT 1 -P TCP --SPORT 9160 -J DROP IPTABLES -I OUTPUT 1 -P TCP --SPORT 7000 -J DROP
9/15/14 FAILURE FRIDAY! TC QDISC ADD DEV ETH0 ROOT NETEM
DELAY 500MS 100MS LOSS 5%
9/15/14 “RESULTS READER BOARD” BY ROSA SAY
9/15/14 Issues fixed FAILURE FRIDAY! Aggressive restarts by monit Large
files on ext3 volumes Failing to restart due to bad /etc/fstab file High latency from network isolated cache Low capacity with a lost DC Missing alerts/metrics
9/15/14 Cultural impact FAILURE FRIDAY! Knowledge sharing Highlights untestable systems
Keeps failure handling on everyone’s mind
9/15/14 Future plans “ROBOT SWORDSMAN FIGHT.” BY PATRICK GAGE KELLEY
9/15/14 Break more things FAILURE FRIDAY! Start testing whole DC
outages Break multiple services at once Distribute failure testing to teams Automate
9/15/14 Break more things FAILURE FRIDAY! Start testing whole DC
outages Break multiple services at once Distribute failure testing to teams Automate
9/15/14 Summary FAILURE FRIDAY! Failures will happen Proactively test failure
handling now Choose something easy: app server, cache Automate later
9/15/14 pagerduty.com/jobs Thank you.