6.5Getting Started: A 90-Day Chaos Adoption Plan

Month 1: Foundation

1. Install Litmus or Chaos Mesh in a staging cluster
2. Run your first pod-delete experiment against a non-critical service
3. Add HTTP probes to verify the service remains available
4. Document the experiment and results

Month 2: Expand

1. Add network latency experiments between services
2. Introduce DNS failure experiments for external dependencies
3. Run experiments in staging as part of the deployment pipeline
4. Begin planning your first production experiment

Month 3: Production

1. Run your first production experiment during a low-traffic window
2. Start with the smallest blast radius (one pod, one service)
3. Have the on-call engineer present during the experiment
4. Document findings and begin building a regular chaos schedule