Using Azure Chaos Studio

Azure Chaos Studio is a new service provided by Microsoft that allows us to run chaos experiments against a subset of Azure resources. To find it, we can go to “All Services” in the Azure portal and search for “chaos” in the search bar. Chaos Studio should show up as one of the options, as shown in the screenshot below:

Note: At the time of writing, Azure Chaos Studio is in Public Preview. Names, screenshots, and features may be subject to change once the service has reached General Availability (GA).

Steps

We can follow these steps to use Azure Chaos Studio:

1. Clicking the “Chaos Studio” link will take us to the main page of the studio. Here, we’ll be shown an overview page with options to set up the targets of chaos experiments, as well as the experiments themselves. The screenshot below illustrates the overview page.

2. To start, we click the “Targets” to see what available Azure resources we can run chaos experiments against. Depending on what we’ve deployed in our subscription, our list might vary. In this case, we’re looking for the virtual machine scale set associated with the AKS cluster we provisioned. The screenshot below ...