Appendix A. Installing chaos engineering tools

This appendix will help you install the tools you need in order to implement chaos engineering experiments in this book. All of the tools we discuss here (with the exception of Kubernetes) are also preinstalled in the VM that ships with this book, so the easiest way to benefit from the book is to just start the VM.

If you’d like to use the tools directly on any host, let’s see how to do that now.

A.1 Prerequisites

You’re going to need a Linux machine. All of the tools and examples in this book have been tested on kernel version 5.4.0. The book uses Ubuntu (https://ubuntu.com/), a popular Linux distribution, version 20.04 LTS, but none of the tools used in the book are Ubuntu-specific.

The book assumes ...

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