Best SRE Training - Site Reliability Engineering Course
                     Best Practices for Implementing Chaos 
Engineering in an Organization
(Strengthening System Resilience
Through Proactive Failure)
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Introduction to Chaos Engineering
• Key Points:
 Chaos Engineering is the practice of intentionally injecting failures into 
systems to test resilience.
 Originated at Netflix to improve availability at scale.
• Goal: Build confidence in system behavior under turbulent conditions.
Visual: Diagram showing a normal system vs. system under chaos 
testing.
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Why Chaos Engineering Matters
• Key Points:
 Systems are complex and unpredictable in 
production.
 Prevent outages by learning how systems fail before 
customers are affected.
• Helps validate assumptions about system behavior 
under stress.
Visual: Stats or charts showing downtime cost or 
incident trends.
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Prepare Your Organization
• Best Practices:
 Educate stakeholders on goals and benefits.
 Establish a culture of learning and blameless postmortems.
• Align Chaos Engineering with business objectives (e.g., 
uptime, SLAs).
Visual: Roadmap or checklist for cultural readiness.
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Start Small and Safe
• Best Practices:
 Begin with low-risk, non-critical systems.
 Run experiments in staging before production.
• Use controlled experiments with clear 
rollback plans.
Visual: Funnel diagram – staging → canary 
→ production.
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Define a Hypothesis
• Best Practices:
 Clearly define what you expect to happen before injecting failure.
 Focus on measurable outcomes (e.g., latency, error rate, CPU 
usage).
• Use real scenarios like service outages or network throttling.
Visual: Scientific method applied to software systems.
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Automate and Integrate
• Best Practices:
 Integrate chaos experiments into CI/CD pipelines.
 Automate scheduling with guardrails to prevent 
uncontrolled failures.
• Use chaos platforms (e.g., Gremlin, Litmus, Chaos 
Mesh).
Visual: Pipeline diagram showing chaos tools in the 
workflow.
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Measure, Learn, and Improve
• Best Practices:
 Monitor outcomes and gather logs, metrics, and user 
impact.
 Share findings across teams to improve incident response.
• Use insights to prioritize resilience improvements.
Visual: Feedback loop or iterative cycle graphic.
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Key Takeaways & Next Steps
• Summary:
 Start with a clear purpose, build organizational support.
 Run safe, hypothesis-driven experiments.
 Automate and iterate to build resilience culture.
Next Steps:
 Identify candidates for your first chaos test.
• Set up metrics to track reliability improvements.
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Site Reliability Engineering
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