Using an outage to test availability

Every high availability cluster must possess the capability to detect and route around server failures. Hardware faults, virtual instance crashes, mistyped commands, and any number of potential disasters lurk around every corner. The best way to determine the true resilience of our stack is to test it by breaking something.

Let's see what happens by attacking Patroni directly.

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