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This repository contains the guide and content for the "Surviving Chaos: A Field Guide" workshop hosted at Linux Foundation Open Source Summit 2018 in Vancouver, BC, Canada on August 29-31, 2018.

This workshop is targeted towards people who want to:

• Hunt the most obscure and unexpected bugs.
• Improve their testing.
• Build more robust services.
• Find things they overlooked.
• Deploy with more confidence.
• Develop a deeper understanding of the sinister ways computers can fail.
• Sleep soundly at night, without worrying about getting a page.

In order to get the most from this workshop you should be:

• Comfortable navigating a machine via console.
• Able to understand and work with simple bash scripts.
• Proficient with editing text on the console. (With nvim, emacs, or whatever).
• Familiar with some supervisor. (We'll use systemd)
• Able to write code in some language. (We'll be using some simple Rust for our demos)
• Not afraid to kill processes.

Not any of these things? You can still try, but you will need to access significant supplementary materials.

• This guide.
• A copy of the reveal.js slides.
• A terraform script to provision a laboratory for you.
• A provisioning bash script for Ubuntu 18.04 that sets up all required tools.
• Demo programs to use in your exploration.