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Gremlin’s chaos engineering platform is now available on Amazon Web Services‘ CloudFormation Public Registry. This makes it easy for AWS customers and Gremlin users to easily discover, deploy, and manage Gremlin agents across their AWS infrastructure, specifically their Amazon EKS clusters.

Installing the Gremlin agent enables you to run targeted experiments on your EKS workloads, such as: In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to use CloudFormation Public Registry to deploy Gremlin and validate that you can run experiments on your cluster. You’ll create an IAM role for CloudFormation, deploy an Amazon EKS cluster, activate the Gremlin extension in CloudFormation, and finally deploy the agent to your cluster.

Now that your cluster is running and CloudFormation has access to the Kubernetes API, the next step is to activate the Gremlin extension.

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