Exploring OpenFaaS autoscalability on Kubernetes with the Chaos Toolkit

by Lawouach 6 years ago

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A simple Chaos Engineering experiment against OpenFaaS running on Kubernetes to determine if it OpenFaaS auto-scale when the load gets high.

The report generated from this run can be found here https://www.slideshare.net/Lawouach/exploring-openfaas-autoscalability-on-kubernetes-with-the-chaos-toolkit

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