US 12,242,370 B2
Intent-based chaos level creation to variably test environments
Marisol Palmero Amador, Toledo (ES); Kanishka Priyadharshini Annamali, Theni (IN); Sebastian Jeuk, Munich (DE); Sayali Patil, Nashik (IN); and Michael Francois Karl Wielpuetz, Cologne (DE)
Assigned to Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/871,508.
Prior Publication US 2024/0028499 A1, Jan. 25, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 9/44 (2018.01); G06F 11/3668 (2025.01)
CPC G06F 11/3684 (2013.01) [G06F 11/3688 (2013.01); G06F 11/3692 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving, at a chaos level engine, initial input parameters; and
with the chaos level engine:
determining scaled input parameters based on the initial input parameters, the scaled input parameters defining how the initial input parameters effect a computing environment to be tested;
determining a chaos level for performing a chaos experiment on the computing environment based on the scaled input parameters;
sending the chaos level to the computing environment for the chaos experiment;
executing the chaos experiment on the computing environment while a production environment of the computing environment is live, the chaos experiment comprising instructions to alter at least one parameter in the computing environment;
receiving, from the computing environment, feedback defining an impact caused by the chaos experiment created at the computing environment and an intended level of chaos; and
displaying, on a user interface (UI), chaos level information, the chaos level information comprising:
information defining the chaos level introducible to the computing environment above which execution of the chaos experiment would create a disabling chaos within the production environment,
information defining the chaos level introducible to the computing environment at which no chaos experimentation occurs, and
information defining the chaos level introducible to the computing environment at which significant chaos experimentation occurs.