<p>The <code>Chaos Monkey</code> tool, released by Netflix might be restricted to AWS at this time. But the approach is definitely not restricted and can be implemented anywhere where there are distributed systems comprised of a multitude of redundant parts, hopefully with automated healing ability.</p>

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2017-06-22T11:30:16.317Z
2017-06-22T11:30:16.317Z
Evgeny Zislis
<p>Quoting the standalone ChaosMonkey <a href="https://github.com/netflix/chaosmonkey" rel="nofollow noreferrer">README</a>:</p>

<blockquote>
  <h2>Requirements</h2>
  
  <p>This version of Chaos Monkey is fully integrated with Spinnaker, the
  continuous delivery platform that we use at Netflix. You must be
  managing your apps with Spinnaker to use Chaos Monkey to terminate
  instances.</p>
  
  <p>Chaos Monkey should work with any backend that Spinnaker supports
  (AWS, Google Compute Engine, Azure, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry). It has
  been tested with AWS, GCE, and Kubernetes.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>As said there, you'll find supported Spinnaker platforms on <a href="https://www.spinnaker.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.spinnaker.io</a></p>

<p>Your quote comes from the quickstart documentation of Symian Army, as for any quickstart it is opinionated to keep things as simple as possible, if you don't match the quickstart environment, you will have to dig deeper in the documentations to adapt to your needs.</p>

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2017-12-27T23:48:48.833Z
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Tensibai
<p>According to <a href="https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy/wiki/Quick-Start-Guide" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this documentation</a>, ChoasMonkey seems to be restricted to AWS:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Get Auto Scaling Tools</p>
  
  <p>You can use the new AWS CLI tools:</p>

<pre><code>$ sudo pip install awscli
</code></pre>
</blockquote>

<p>Is it possible to use ChaosMonkey on other platforms as well?</p>

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Is the use of ChaosMonkey restricted to AWS?
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# Is the use of ChaosMonkey restricted to AWS?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-06-22)

According to this documentation, ChoasMonkey seems to be restricted to AWS:

Get Auto Scaling Tools
You can use the new AWS CLI tools:
$ sudo pip install awscli


Is it possible to use ChaosMonkey on other platforms as well?

**Tags:** resilience-testing


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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2017-06-22. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

Quoting the standalone ChaosMonkey [README](https://github.com/netflix/chaosmonkey):

> ## Requirements
>
> This version of Chaos Monkey is fully integrated with Spinnaker, the
> continuous delivery platform that we use at Netflix. You must be
> managing your apps with Spinnaker to use Chaos Monkey to terminate
> instances.
>
> Chaos Monkey should work with any backend that Spinnaker supports
> (AWS, Google Compute Engine, Azure, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry). It has
> been tested with AWS, GCE, and Kubernetes.

As said there, you'll find supported Spinnaker platforms on <https://www.spinnaker.io>

Your quote comes from the quickstart documentation of Symian Army, as for any quickstart it is opinionated to keep things as simple as possible, if you don't match the quickstart environment, you will have to dig deeper in the documentations to adapt to your needs.


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### Answer by username_1 on 2017-06-22. Score: 1

The `Chaos Monkey` tool, released by Netflix might be restricted to AWS at this time. But the approach is definitely not restricted and can be implemented anywhere where there are distributed systems comprised of a multitude of redundant parts, hopefully with automated healing ability.


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