Chaos Automation Platform Orchestrator for Telecom Resilience
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing telecommunications systems lack effective tools for chaos engineering, which is essential for improving resilience and reliability, especially in cloud-native environments where expertise and simulation capabilities are limited.
Innovation Solution
A zero-touch chaos automation platform orchestrator (CAPO) is implemented, allowing users to easily experiment and test the reliability, resiliency, and recovery of telecommunications systems through one-click chaos engineering workflows, modular chaos design, and a user-friendly interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If chaos engineering tools are implemented in telecommunications systems, then system resilience and reliability are improved, but system complexity and implementation difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a chaos orchestration platform as an intermediary layer between users and the underlying chaos engineering infrastructure. This platform provides pre-configured chaos blueprints, templates, and experiments that abstract away the complexity of implementing chaos engineering, allowing users to improve system resilience without directly managing the complex tooling and infrastructure required
Solution Approach 2:
The chaos engineering capability is segmented into modular components including chaos blueprints, templates, experiments, and orchestration workflows. This segmentation allows the system to manage complexity by breaking down resilience testing into discrete, reusable units that can be independently configured and executed
2Reliability
If comprehensive chaos engineering capabilities are provided, then system testing thoroughness is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates standardized copies of chaos engineering configurations through blueprints and templates. These templates represent pre-vetted, comprehensive testing scenarios that can be replicated and executed without requiring users to design complex test cases from scratch, thereby maintaining thoroughness while improving ease of operation
Solution Approach 2:
The chaos orchestration platform provides universal, multi-functional capabilities through a single interface that can execute various types of chaos experiments (infrastructure failures, network failures, application failures) across different system components. This universal platform approach allows comprehensive testing through one unified tool rather than requiring multiple specialized tools
3Productivity
If automated chaos experimentation is implemented, then productivity is improved, but extent of automation increases system complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring chaos blueprints, templates, and experiments with all necessary parameters, dependencies, and execution logic before actual testing. This preliminary setup work is done once and reused across multiple testing scenarios, improving productivity while containing automation complexity through reusable configurations
Data Source
AI summary
A method includes receiving, from a mobile device, a request in a telecommunications system to invoke operations from an automation platform executed by processing circuitry to perform one or more of: executing, by the processing circuitry, one or more existing simulated failure experiments for the telecommunications system; determining, by the processing circuitry, whether a simulated failure blueprint is configured for specific simulated failure cases exist on the automation platform; determining, by the processing circuitry, whether a simulated failure template is configured to accept a targeted telecommunications domain and failure parameters exist on the automation platform; or instructing the mobile device to display recommended simulated failure experiments with selectable telecommunications domains and selectable failure parameters.