William Denniss • 5/31/2025

Simulate a zonal failure on Autopilot

This technical article explains how to bypass GKE Autopilot's safeguards to simulate a zonal failure, testing your workload's resilience. It details a method using kubectl cordon and delete commands within a script to cordon nodes and delete pods in a specific zone, effectively removing compute capacity to observe load balancing and recovery behavior.

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#testing #Scripting #Kubernetes