Turn time forward and check whether your TLS/SSL certificates are valid.

Motivation

Noticing the TLS/SSL certification expiry too late is one problem you can easily avoid by frequently checking your expiry dates. While observability tools already handle this job nicely, you can't know whether they are working in your environment. With this experiment, you can turn the time forward to check whether your HTTPS endpoint works at a given date in the future. Additionally, you can configure one of the observability integrations to validate your observability tool's alerting.

Structure

First, we validate that the given HTTPS endpoint is working today. Next, we will travel with the host in time to validate that the HTTPS endpoint continues to work on a given date. If the TLS/SSL certificate has already expired at that date, the HTTP check will throw failures.

Warning

Please be aware that we will manipulate the time for a given host. Applications running at that host may struggle to deal with the change in the clock correctly, and you may experience other side effects.

Turn time forward and check whether your TLS/SSL certificates are valid.

Motivation

Noticing the TLS/SSL certification expiry too late is one problem you can easily avoid by frequently checking your expiry dates. While observability tools already handle this job nicely, you can't know whether they are working in your environment. With this experiment, you can turn the time forward to check whether your HTTPS endpoint works at a given date in the future. Additionally, you can configure one of the observability integrations to validate your observability tool's alerting.

Structure

First, we validate that the given HTTPS endpoint is working today. Next, we will travel with the host in time to validate that the HTTPS endpoint continues to work on a given date. If the TLS/SSL certificate has already expired at that date, the HTTP check will throw failures.

Warning

Please be aware that we will manipulate the time for a given Kubernetes node. Containers running at that host may struggle to deal with the change in the clock correctly, and you may experience other side effects.

Achieve high availability of your Kubernetes cluster via redundancy across different Availability Zones. Check what happens to your Kubernetes cluster when one of the zones is down.

Motivation

Cloud providers host your deployments and services across multiple locations worldwide. From a reliability standpoint, regions and availability zones are most interesting. While the former refers to separate geographic areas spread worldwide, the latter refers to an isolated location within a region. For most use cases, applying deployments across availability zones is sufficient. Given that failures may happen at this level quite frequently, you should verify that your applications are still working in case of an outage.

Structure

We leverage the block traffic attack to simulate a full network loss in an availability zone. While the zone outage happens, we observe changes in the Kubernetes cluster with Steadybit's built-in visibility. Once the zone outage is over, we expect that all deployments will recover again within a specified time.

Solution Sketch

• AWS Regions and Zones
• Azure Regions and Zones
• GCP Regions and Zones
• Kubernetes liveness, readiness, and startup probes

Achieve high availability of your Kubernetes cluster via redundancy across different Availability Zones. Check what happens to your Kubernetes cluster when one of the zones suffers from a network loss.

Motivation

Cloud provider host your deployments and services across multiple locations worldwide. From a reliability standpoint, regions and availability zones are most interesting. While the former refers to separate geographic areas spread worldwide, the latter refers to an isolated location within a region. For most use cases, applying deployments across availability zone is sufficient. Given that failures may happen at this level quite frequently, you should verify that your applications are still working in case of an outage.

Structure

We leverage the drop outgoing traffic to simulate network loss in an availability. If you want to test for a full outage of the zone, configure it to 100% loss. While the network loss happens, we observe changes of a Kubernetes cluster with Steadybit's built-in visibility. Once the network loss is over, we expect that all deployments will recover again within a specified time.

Solution Sketch

• AWS Regions and Zones
• Azure Regions and Zones
• GCP Regions and Zones
• Kubernetes liveness, readiness, and startup probes