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Surviving the Chaos: A Field Guide

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A field guide.

Surviving Chaos

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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.