DevOps Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation

About this course

Learn the principles of site reliability engineering. You will define service level objectives and error budgets, reduce toil, monitor with service level indicators, automate, learn from failure and understand SRE's impact on the organisation.

What you'll learn

• The history of SRE and its emergence at Google
• The inter-relationship of SRE with DevOps and other popular frameworks
• The underlying principles behind SRE
• Service Level Objectives (SLO’s) and their user focus
• Service Level Indicators (SLI’s) and the modern monitoring landscape
• Error budgets and the associated error budget policies
• Toil and its effect on an organization’s productivity
• Some practical steps that can help to eliminate toil
• Observability as something to indicate the health of a service
• SRE tools, automation techniques and the importance of security
• Anti-fragility, our approach to failure and failure testing
• The organizational impact that introducing SRE brings

Curriculum

Who it's for

Operations engineers, developers and IT managers.

Before you start

• There are no required prerequisites for the DevOps Institute's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation certification, but the following are recommended: Understanding of common DevOps terminology and concepts, Related work experience, IT experience, and Working knowledge in the DevOps field.