Using GitOps for Kubernetes Reliability at Scale

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Claim: GitOps automates large-scale chaos testing by treating experiments as code and running them whenever an application change occurs. Implementation uses LitmusChaos with a git-backed config store (deploy keys write workflow metadata to a Git repo) and FluxCD/GitHub workflows to pull experiments. Demo shows an nginx deployment change triggering an event-triggered chaos workflow that runs a pod-delete experiment and writes results back to Chaos Center, enabling repeatable, auditable chaos at scale.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:31What Chaos Engineering Is
3. 2:53Summary
4. 4:13Why Is It More Important in the Era of Cloud Native Devops
5. 6:22Chaos Engineering Is a Solution for Reliability
6. 15:31How Do You Pull a Chaos Experiment on Top of an Application Change That Is Rolled
7. 17:33Demos
8. 19:37Deploy Keys to Github
9. 22:14Workflow Scheduler

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