
SK Ali Arman
Chaos Engineering KubeDB MariaDB on Kubernetes, Testing Galera Cluster & Standard Replication Resilience
Overview We conducted 40+ chaos experiments across 2 MariaDB topologies (Galera Cluster and MariaDB Replication with MaxScale) on KubeDB-managed 3-node clusters. The goal: validate that KubeDB MariaDB delivers zero data loss, automatic failover, and self-healing recovery under realistic failure conditions with production-level write loads.
The result: All experiments passed with zero data loss. Both topologies recovered automatically from every pod, stress, network, IO-fault, time, and DNS scenario tested.
This post summarizes the methodology, results, and key findings from comprehensive chaos testing of KubeDB MariaDB.
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chaos-mesh
database
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high-availability
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kubernetes
mariadb
maxscale
replication