Chaos Engineering with Terraform: Destroy Random Resources
A few days back, I stumbled upon an interesting post (unfortunately I couldn’t find the original source) about deliberately destroying random Terraform resources, or so called chaos engineering if you will. the command terraform destroy -auto-approve -target "$(terraform state list | shuf -n 1)" You can add this command to a cron job and schedule it to run every Friday evening for some weekend excitement. For a more sophisticated approach, there’s Chaos Monkey - the chaos engineering tool developed by Netflix. But if you’re just getting started with chaos engineering, this scuffed one-liner might be a better (not safer for sure) entry point. ...