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Re:Failure Injection on Kubernetes with SMI and Linkerd by lemoncucumber on Monday July 22, 2019 @08:14PM (#20503409)
It's worth noting that Istio has built-in support for failure injection (i.e. without needing to run a separate service to return 500s): https://istio.io/docs/tasks/traffic-management/fault-injecti...

As far as I know Linkerd does not (yet) have such a feature though, so this post seems like a reasonable alternative.

Re:Failure Injection on Kubernetes with SMI and Linkerd by adlleong on Monday July 22, 2019 @08:26PM (#20503460)
That's right, and there are some interesting trade-offs. Having failure injection built-in is convenient but running a separate service gives you full control over the error responses. This can be useful if you want to simulate responses with error bodies, for example.