Surviving Chaos

Psst! This guide is still in progress, you're welcome to help with improvements, or just enjoy!

This repository contains the guide and content for the "Surviving Chaos: A Field Guide" workshop hosted at Linux Foundation Open Source Summit 2018 in Vancouver, BC, Canada on August 29-31, 2018.

Who is this for?

This workshop is targeted towards people who want to:

• Hunt the most obscure and unexpected bugs.

• Improve their testing.

• Build more robust services.

• Find things they overlooked.

• Deploy with more confidence.

• Develop a deeper understanding of the sinister ways computers can fail.

• Sleep soundly at night, without worrying about getting a page.

What do I need to know?

In order to get the most from this workshop you should be:

• Comfortable navigating a machine via console.

• Able to understand and work with simple bash scripts.

• Proficient with editing text on the console. (With nvim, emacs, or whatever).

• Familiar with some supervisor. (We'll use systemd)

• Able to write code in some language. (We'll be using some simple Rust for our demos)

• Not afraid to kill processes.

Not any of these things? You can still try, but you will need to access significant supplementary materials.

What's Inside?

• This guide.

• A copy of the reveal.js slides.

• A terraform script to provision a laboratory for you.

• A provisioning bash script for Ubuntu 18.04 that sets up all required tools.

• Demo programs to use in your exploration.