Chaos Chimp

A concept built from the ideas of the Netflix Simian Army

Prerequisites

• Basic experience with AWS (EC2, Lambda, IAM).
• A simple EC2 autoscaling group.
• A Node.js 14.x lambda function created with ‘Author from scratch’.
• Modifications made to the role of the previously created lambda function (adding AmazonEC2FullAccess and AutoScalingFullAccess).
• A CloudWatch Event Rule that runs the lambda every minute.

Deployment

Input the code from index.js into the main Lambda body, replacing the variable contents with the relevent information as per your environment.

Further Reading

https://netflixtechblog.com/5-lessons-weve-learned-using-aws-1f2a28588e4c

https://netflixtechblog.com/the-netflix-simian-army-16e57fbab116