Swift Chaos Drills

Scenarios

COC is a secure and efficient O&M platform, offering one-stop, AI-powered solutions for all your centralized O&M needs. You can configure drill templates and attack templates to perform fault drills on physical machines, VMs, or CCE containers in the chaos drill function module. You can also manage failure modes. You can select a target instance to execute fault drills.

This section describes how to use COC to perform a fault drill on an ECS to increase the CPU usage.

Operation Process

Preparations

1. Sign up with Huawei Cloud and complete real-name authentication.

   Before using COC, Sign up for a HUAWEI ID, enable Huawei Cloud services, and then complete real-name authentication.

   If you already have enabled Huawei Cloud services and completed real-name authentication, skip this step.

2. Enable COC.

   Upon your first login, enable COC first.

   If you have enabled COC, skip this step.

Step 1: Synchronize resources.

1. Log in to COC.
2. Click in the upper left corner on the Overview page and select a region.
3. In the navigation pane, choose Resources > Application and Resource Management.
4. Click to synchronize resources.
   Figure 1 Synchronizing resources
   

Step 2: Creating an Application

1. In the navigation pane, choose Resources > Application and Resource Management.
2. Click the Applications tab.
3. Click Create Application.
4. Configure the application structure type.
   Figure 2 Parameters for configuring the application structure type
   

   Table 1 Parameters for configuring the application structure type

   Parameter	Example Value	Description
   Application Structure Type	Lightweight application	Select a value based on the complexity of the application structure.

5. Set Application Structure Configuration.
   Figure 3 Parameters in the Application Structure Configuration area
   

   Table 2 Parameters in the Application Structure Configuration area

   Parameter	Example Value	Description
   Application	test-application	Customize an application name based on the naming rule. Click Save.
   Component	test-component	Customize the component name based on the naming rule. Click Save.
   Group	test-group	Customize a group name based on the naming rule.
   Vendor	Huawei Cloud	Select the cloud vendor to which the target instance belongs.
   Region	CN North-Ulanqab203	Select the region in which the target instance is located.
   Resource Association Method	Manual association	Select a resource association mode.
   Associate with Resource	-	Select the target instance to execute the chaos drill. Click Save.

6. Click Create.

Step 3: Creating a Drill Task.

1. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Resilience Center > Chaos Drills.
2. Click the Drill Tasks tab.
3. Click Create Task.
4. Configure basic information.
   Figure 4 Parameters for configuring the basic information
   

   Table 3 Basic information parameters

   Parameter	Example Value	Description
   Drill Task	test-drill	Customize the drill task name based on the naming rules.
   Expected Recovery Duration (Minutes)	3	Expected time from fault occurrence to fault recovery

5. Click Add Attack Task 5 more attack tasks can be created. The Create Attack Task drawer is displayed. You can create 5 more attack tasks.
6. Configure required parameters on the Create Attack Task page and click Next.
   Figure 5 Parameters for creating an attack task
   

   Table 4 Parameters for adding an attack task

   Parameter	Example Value	Description
   Source of Attack Target	Elastic Cloud Server (ECS)	Select the source of the target instance.
   Attack Task	test-attacktask	Customize the name of the attack task based on the naming rule.
   Attack Target	-	Select a target instance.

7. Set parameters in the Select Attack Scenarios step and click Next.
   Figure 6 Parameters for selecting an attack scenario
   

   Table 5 Parameters for selecting an attack scenario

   Parameter	Example Value	Description
   Attack Type	Host Resource	Attack scenarios are classified based on attack scenario types.
   Attack Scenario	Increased CPU Usage	Customize the name of the attack task based on the naming rule.
   Attack Parameters	CPU Usage (%): 80 Fault Duration (s): 60	Configure attack parameters based on attack scenarios.

8. Click Finish.
9. Click OK.

Step 4: Start the drill.

1. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Resilience Center > Chaos Drills.
2. Click the Drill Tasks tab.
3. Locate the drill task created in Step 3 and click Start Drill in the Operation column.
   Figure 7 Starting a drill task
   
4. Click OK.
5. Check the attack progress and details. After the drill is complete, click Create Drill Report to create a drill report.
   Figure 8 Drill record details page