Automate reliability testing in your CI/CD pipeline using the Gremlin API

Automating reliability testing in CI/CD pipelines is crucial for software engineering teams to prevent production incidents and downtime. Gremlin, a Chaos Engineering and reliability testing platform, offers tools for integrating such tests into CI/CD processes, which typically focus on unit, integration, and performance testing. By leveraging Gremlin's REST API and experiment scenarios, teams can incorporate reliability tests that mimic failures like node outages and network errors. Two methods are highlighted: running ad-hoc reliability tests similar to QA testing, and using reliability scores as a gating function for code releases. The former provides immediate feedback but can slow down deployments, while the latter offers a pre-calculated reliability score to guide release decisions without needing to rerun tests on each deployment. Despite the challenges, such as increased complexity and potential delays, these methods help teams identify and address reliability risks, ultimately maintaining high software quality and minimizing disruption.