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Chaos Bernie: Delete Azure resources by playing Doom

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Doom has a surprisingly rich history of being used to manage things stupidly. The one that most comes to mind is the old mod for local process management. Killing a process does what you'd expect: https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/chi/chi.html

It's not stupid, it's a charming hack.

Reloads rocket launcher.

I did a live demo (to my org) showing our prod cluster resiliency using Kubedoom [0], it was awesome and really helped non-technical people understand how Kubernetes works when resources get destroyed with a chainsaw.

But this, this is madness!

[0] https://github.com/storax/kubedoom

Semi-related is dungeonfs [0], a game masquerading as a FUSE filesystem.

- [0] https://fossbytes.com/dungeonfs-fuse-filesystem-dungeon-craw...

Also semi-related [0], Minecraft as a K8s admin tool

[0] https://github.com/erjadi/kubecraftadmin

If this was AWS you’d have to kill them in dependency order or they would be immortal and you’d need to make yourself a coffee while they were slowly dying.

Bernie as in Bernie Sanders?

Looks like yes, from the README:

  Chaos Bernie was written during an internal hackathon as a fun way to clean up Azure resources. Users are great at spinning up compute resources but often require nagging to deallocate or destroy them. As Bernie would say "Once again I'm asking for you to clean up your compute resources"

Let's not name software after annoying politicians please...

Though featuring a politician, it's essentially named after an internet meme. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-am-once-again-asking-for-yo...

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