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Gremlin Free – Run chaos experiments to prevent outages

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Post by dpritchett » Wed, Feb 27, 2019, 4:25 PM UTC

Gremlin Free – Run chaos experiments to prevent outages
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Re: Gremlin Free – Run chaos experiments to prevent outages

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Post by lklig » Wed, Feb 27, 2019, 4:52 PM UTC

Hey folks, I work at Gremlin and we're super excited to announce this launch. Drop any questions, comments, or concerns, we're happy to help!

Re: Gremlin Free – Run chaos experiments to prevent outages

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Post by ingrid » Wed, Feb 27, 2019, 4:55 PM UTC

Ha, after working on building Uber’s chaos monkey (which was hard and took a while to build) and working with Netflix’s chaos monkey — it’s super nice to see Gremlin release this service so anyone can see the benefits of chaos engineering. I hope they add a “random chaos” feature to keep engineers on their feet. ;-)

Re: Gremlin Free – Run chaos experiments to prevent outages

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Post by mpls » Wed, Feb 27, 2019, 5:09 PM UTC

lklig wrote: post #2

Hey folks, I work at Gremlin and we're super excited to announce this launch. Drop any questions, comments, or concerns, we're happy to help!

Thanks for putting this out! I caught a Gremlin talk at a recent conference and was very impressed with how knowledgeable the developers were.

How does the Gremlin platform interact with one of my hosts? Do I need to install an agent or something? Does it need root access to my host, hypervisor, cloud console?

Re: Gremlin Free – Run chaos experiments to prevent outages

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Post by dkersten » Wed, Feb 27, 2019, 5:20 PM UTC

lklig wrote: post #2

Hey folks, I work at Gremlin and we're super excited to announce this launch. Drop any questions, comments, or concerns, we're happy to help!

I like the look of this and love that you have released a free version. I am a little dismayed, though, that the two options are $0 and $1000/m (paid annually) with nothing in between. The free version seems great to get started, but I'd really like a lot more of the attacks that the paid version has, but $12,000 is much, much too high a price for a startup or personal project. That's quite a jump in cost.

Re: Gremlin Free – Run chaos experiments to prevent outages

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Post by gfs » Wed, Feb 27, 2019, 5:22 PM UTC

lklig wrote: post #2

Hey folks, I work at Gremlin and we're super excited to announce this launch. Drop any questions, comments, or concerns, we're happy to help!

I see that you are on the Rust production user page [0]. Can you talk a little bit about what Rust is used for and how the experience has been?

[0]: https://www.rust-lang.org/production/users

Re: Gremlin Free – Run chaos experiments to prevent outages

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Post by espeed » Wed, Feb 27, 2019, 5:34 PM UTC

NB: This company "Gremlin, Inc", its product "Gremlin Free", and its use of the Gremlin name is in no way affiliated with or related to Apache TinkerPop™ Gremlin, its ASF marks, name, the open-source Gremlin graph programming language, ASF TinkerPop Gremlin Graph Traversal Machine (GSM), associated libraries, or the Gremlin Graph developers group formed in 2009.

http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/faq/

Re: Gremlin Free – Run chaos experiments to prevent outages

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Post by yodon » Wed, Feb 27, 2019, 5:40 PM UTC

espeed wrote: post #7

NB: This company "Gremlin, Inc", its product "Gremlin Free", and its use of the Gremlin name is in no way affiliated with or related to Apache TinkerPop™ Gremlin, its ASF marks, name, the open-source Gremlin graph programming language, ASF TinkerPop Gremlin Graph Traversal Machine (GSM), associated libraries, or the Gremlin Graph developers group formed in 2009. http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/faq/

It's also probably not related to the 1984 movie "Gremlins" or the 1970's car of the same name (listed as one of the ugliest cars of all time[0])

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/worlds-15-ugliest-cars/7/

Re: Gremlin Free – Run chaos experiments to prevent outages

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Post by lklig » Wed, Feb 27, 2019, 5:48 PM UTC

mpls wrote: post #4

lklig wrote: post #2

Hey folks, I work at Gremlin and we're super excited to announce this launch. Drop any questions, comments, or concerns, we're happy to help!

Thanks for putting this out! I caught a Gremlin talk at a recent conference and was very impressed with how knowledgeable the developers were. How does the Gremlin platform interact with one of my hosts? Do I need to install an agent or something? Does it need root access to my host, hypervisor, cloud console?

Simply install an agent, authenticate with our control plane, and create attacks through our webapp. No root access required.

Check out more info at https://www.gremlin.com/docs/infrastructure-layer/installati... .

Re: Gremlin Free – Run chaos experiments to prevent outages

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Post by espeed » Wed, Feb 27, 2019, 5:55 PM UTC

yodon wrote: post #8

espeed wrote: post #7

NB: This company "Gremlin, Inc", its product "Gremlin Free", and its use of the Gremlin name is in no way affiliated with or related to Apache TinkerPop™ Gremlin, its ASF marks, name, the open-source Gremlin graph programming language, ASF TinkerPop Gremlin Graph Traversal Machine (GSM), associated libraries, or the Gremlin Graph developers group formed in 2009. http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/faq/

It's also probably not related to the 1984 movie "Gremlins" or the 1970's car of the same name (listed as one of the ugliest cars of all time[0]) [0] https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/worlds-15-ugliest-cars/7/

ASF marks were filed at formation. Identifying and distinguishing the use of similar and potentially confusing marks (esp in software products) is one of the required duties. The use of ASF marks in software products is prohibited to prevent confusion.