Soar: Simulation for Observability, reliAbility, and secuRity

This post introduces SOAR (Simulation for Observability, Reliability, and Security), a new system designed to address the challenges of testing complex, homogeneous edge environments. SOAR creates dedicated data centers for running simulations with synthesized customer traffic and applications, mirroring production software stacks. It enhances isolation and coordination between simulations, improves engineer-friendliness through an internal coordinator service, and allows for more complex, interactive simulations, particularly for products like Magic Transit, ensuring reliability and security before production deployment.