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 Duration 35 hours

Course Outline

SRE Anti-patterns

  • Spotting counterproductive practices
  • Assessing the impact of anti-patterns on system reliability
  • Adopting best practices and corrective alternatives

SLOs as a Proxy for Customer Satisfaction

  • Establishing Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
  • Managing error budgets to balance innovation with stability
  • Navigating the inherent limits of distributed systems

Architecting Secure and Reliable Systems

  • Designing for fault tolerance and resilience
  • Weaving security into reliability engineering
  • Strategies for scalability and data protection

Full-stack Observability

  • Instrumentation and metric collection techniques
  • Distributed tracing and synthetic monitoring methods
  • Practicing observability-driven development

Platform Engineering and AIOps

  • Adopting platform-centered engineering approaches
  • Leveraging automation and orchestration in SRE contexts
  • Harnessing DataOps and operational intelligence

Incident Management in SRE

  • Clarifying roles and responsibilities in incident response
  • Applying frameworks such as OODA
  • Implementing automated remediation and AI/ML-assisted resolution

Chaos Engineering

  • Core principles and strategies for resilience testing
  • Planning and executing "game day" simulations
  • Deriving insights from controlled failure experiments

SRE as a Pure Form of DevOps

  • Embedding SRE within DevOps workflows
  • Fostering cultural alignment and collaboration practices
  • Driving organizational transformation through SRE principles

Post-class Exercises

  • Case studies on large-scale system design
  • Scenarios for advanced instrumentation and monitoring
  • Solving real-world reliability challenges

Review and Exam Preparation

  • Comprehensive review of the DevOps Institute SRE Practitioner syllabus
  • Analysis of sample questions and practice tests
  • Tactics and recommendations for effective exam-taking

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • A solid grasp of core Site Reliability Engineering principles
  • Practical experience with DevOps practices and associated tooling
  • Working knowledge of system monitoring, incident management, and automation

Target Audience

  • SRE professionals pursuing the DevOps Institute SRE Practitioner certification
  • DevOps engineers looking to transition into reliability-focused roles
  • Operations leaders accountable for reliability strategy and execution

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