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Mangle: Orchestrating Chaos Engineering

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32 pointsfrostmatthew7 comments

Hello,

I am a part of the Mangle team. The tool has the capabilities of Chaos Monkey and a lot more. You can introduce faults not just at the VM level but also within an application context. Currently it supports JVM applications (allows you to tinker with the CPU and Heap Mem usage of the application). The team is working on supporting other interesting faults such as making your application throw exceptions, introducing latency at the java method layer, Out of file handle errors etc to name a few. Do enter your wishlist here https://github.com/vmware/mangle/issues and we will work towards developing support for them.

For anyone interested in this type of stuff, check out:

- Of course, jepsen.io

- For JS devs, https://github.com/gundb/panic-server

How does this differ from Chaos Monkey?

Hello jedberg, I am a part of the Mangle team. The tool has the capabilities of Chaos Monkey and a lot more. You can introduce faults not just at the VM level but also within an application context. Currently it supports JVM applications (allows you to tinker with the CPU and Heap Mem usage of the application). The team is working on supporting other interesting faults such as making your application throw exceptions, introducing latency at the java method layer, Out of file handle errors etc to name a few. Do enter your wishlist here https://github.com/vmware/mangle/issues and we will work towards developing support for them.

Excuse my ignorance: is this like chaos monkey or more a tool for fuzzing?

More like chaos monkey. From reading the user guide, I didn't see anything that looks like fuzzing (injecting random or bad data in requests/responses). Looks like it messes with the infrastructure or the application's performance.

Hello hestefisk, I am a part of the Mangle team. The tool has the capabilities of Chaos Monkey and a lot more. You can introduce faults not just at the VM level but also within an application context. Currently it supports JVM applications (allows you to tinker with the CPU and Heap Mem usage of the application). The team is working on supporting other interesting faults such as making your application throw exceptions, introducing latency at the java method layer, Out of file handle errors etc to name a few. Do enter your wishlist here https://github.com/vmware/mangle/issues and we will work towards developing support for them.

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