Uma Mukkara

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Uma Mukkara

Head of Resilience Testing

Harness

Uma Mukkara is Head of Resilience Testing at Harness, where he helps teams improve reliability by safely testing how systems behave during real-world failures. He joined Harness after founding ChaosNative, the company behind LitmusChaos, a popular open-source chaos engineering project. Earlier, Mukkara co-founded MayaData and helped build cloud-native technologies such as OpenEBS. His work centers on making resilience engineering approachable for developers, SREs, and platform teams.

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The Contained Pen Test: Proving Resilience Without Widening the Blast Radius

Show to run Pen Testing on Harness : A contained, pipeline-native way to prove releases fail closed under named conditions. Evidence-first, not an exploit — audited on every run.

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September 9, 2026

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The Contained Pen Test: Proving Resilience Without Widening the Blast Radius

Show to run Pen Testing on Harness : A contained, pipeline-native way to prove releases fail closed under named conditions. Evidence-first, not an exploit — audited on every run.

September 9, 2026

4 minutes to read

Improvise your Operational Readiness Testing (ORT) with Harness

Most Operational Readiness Testing (ORT) programs follow the same ritual. A checklist gets filled out. Someone runs a load test in a war room the week before launch. A failover drill gets scheduled, and everyone hopes it goes cleanly. Then the release is shipped and testing is done. But with Harness you can make this process continuous and your services resilience is protected with the same ORT check list with every small change that is happening in your SDLC.

September 8, 2026

3 minutes to read

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Find Resilience Risks Automatically, Then Confirm Them

RT Agents detect resilience risk in your CD pipelines and Kubernetes workloads, then generate and run chaos experiments or load tests to confirm it.

August 24, 2026

3 minutes to read

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Testing application resilience under load with Grafana K6

Test your app’s resilience under load using Grafana K6 and Harness Chaos Engineering—best practices and real-world Kubernetes example.

March 26, 2025

8 minutes to read

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Why DR Testing Can No Longer Be an Afterthought

The March 2026 drone strikes on AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain — the first confirmed military attack on a hyperscale cloud provider — exposed how unprepared many organisations are for a real regional cloud failure. The blog argues that havin

April 10, 2026

7 minutes to read

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From Chaos Engineering to Resilience Testing: Why We’re Expanding How Teams Validate Reliability

Harness evolves Chaos Engineering into Resilience Testing, unifying Chaos, Load, and Disaster Recovery Testing for continuous, AI-driven reliability validation.

February 27, 2026

2 minutes to read

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Technical

The Contained Pen Test: Proving Resilience Without Widening the Blast Radius

Show to run Pen Testing on Harness : A contained, pipeline-native way to prove releases fail closed under named conditions. Evidence-first, not an exploit — audited on every run.

September 9, 2026

4 minutes to read

Technical

Find Resilience Risks Automatically, Then Confirm Them

RT Agents detect resilience risk in your CD pipelines and Kubernetes workloads, then generate and run chaos experiments or load tests to confirm it.

August 24, 2026

3 minutes to read

Technical

Testing application resilience under load with Grafana K6

Test your app’s resilience under load using Grafana K6 and Harness Chaos Engineering—best practices and real-world Kubernetes example.

March 26, 2025

8 minutes to read

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Why DR Testing Can No Longer Be an Afterthought

April 10, 2026

7 minutes to read

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Making Your Business Resilient Against Cloudflare Like Outages

Cloudflare-like outages can cost your business a significant amount of money. This week’s Cloudflare global outage is a wake-up call for business resilience. You can stay resilient against such outages by doing resilience testing regularly with Harness Chaos Engineering.

November 19, 2025

5 minutes to read

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Resilience Testing using Harness

Resilience testing is made easy to onboard and scalable with Harness Chaos Engineering. Harness provides all the required capabilities to practice resilience testing in SDLC.

September 11, 2025

3 minutes to read

Company News

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Harness launches MCP tools to enhance its AI powered Chaos Engineering Capabilities

Chaos Tools on Harness MCP Server provide the opportunity to do the resilience testing using AI Agents and AI Tools with natural language prompts. Users can discover the resilience test capabilities, learn more about them and run the tests to measure the resilience data of the business critical applications or services. Chaos Tools lay the foundation for AI Powered Chaos Engineering using Harness in the Enterprise's journey towards building a strong resilience testing culture.

July 10, 2025

3 minutes to read

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How to Test Application Resilience Under Load with K6 and Chaos Engineering

Test your app’s resilience under load using Grafana K6 and Harness Resilience Testing—best practices and real-world Kubernetes example.

March 26, 2025

13 minutes to read

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Harness Chaos Engineering Faults Landscape

Discover the range of chaos faults supported by Harness Chaos Engineering, enhancing system resilience across various infrastructures and platforms.

November 27, 2023

5 minutes to read

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Achieving Continuous Resilience with Harness Chaos Engineering

Introducing the continuous resilience approach. Understand the modern approach to practicing chaos engineering where the efforts to build resilience are inserted into all stages of your software development life cycle through automated chaos experiments. Harness Chaos Engineering or Harness CE comes with all the building blocks required for achieving Continuous Resilience in DevOps.

May 25, 2023

6 minutes to read

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