Imagine you’re on a high-speed train—sleek, automated, and trusted by thousands every day. It rarely misses a beat. But behind that smooth ride is a team that constantly simulates disasters: brake failures, signal losses, and power surges. Why? Because when lives depend on reliability, you don’t wait for failure to happen—you plan for it. The same principle applies in today’s cloud-native platforms.
As platform engineers, we design systems to be resilient, scalable, and reliable. But here’s the truth—no matter how perfect your YAMLs or CI/CD pipelines are, failure is inevitable. Chaos engineering, a discipline born out of necessity, is not about causing random destruction, but it’s about intentionally injecting failure into your systems in a controlled environment to understand how they behave under stress. Like fire drills for your platform. In this blog, we’ll explore how you can bring this into your Platform Engineering practices using LitmusChaos, an open-source chaos engineering framework built for Kubernetes.
