Course Outline
SRE Anti-patterns
- Identifying counterproductive practices.
- Recognizing the impact of anti-patterns on reliability.
- Best practices and corrective alternatives.
SLO as a Proxy for Customer Satisfaction
- Defining Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
- Managing error budgets and balancing innovation with reliability.
- Understanding the limits of distributed systems.
Building Secure and Reliable Systems
- Designing for fault tolerance and resilience.
- Integrating security into reliability engineering.
- Scalability and data protection strategies.
Full-stack Observability
- Instrumentation and metrics collection.
- Distributed tracing and synthetic monitoring.
- Observability-driven development.
Platform Engineering and AIOps
- Platform-centred engineering approaches.
- Automation and orchestration in SRE.
- Leveraging DataOps and operational intelligence.
Incident Management in SRE
- Roles and responsibilities in incident response.
- Applying frameworks such as OODA.
- Automated remediation and AI/ML-assisted resolution.
Chaos Engineering
- Principles and strategies for resilience testing.
- Planning and executing “game day” exercises.
- Learning from controlled failure experiments.
SRE as a Pure Form of DevOps
- Integrating SRE into DevOps workflows.
- Cultural alignment and collaboration practices.
- Driving organizational transformation through SRE.
Post-class Exercises
- Large-scale system design case studies.
- Advanced instrumentation and monitoring scenarios.
- Real-world reliability problem-solving.
Review and Exam Preparation
- Final review of the DevOps Institute SRE Practitioner syllabus.
- Sample questions and practice tests.
- Exam-taking strategies and recommendations.
Summary and Next Steps
Requirements
- A solid understanding of core Site Reliability Engineering principles.
- Experience with DevOps practices and associated tools.
- Familiarity with system monitoring, incident management, and automation.
Audience
- SRE professionals seeking DevOps Institute SRE Practitioner certification.
- DevOps engineers looking to transition into reliability-focused roles.
- Operations leaders responsible for reliability strategy and execution.
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Testimonials (1)
Craig was extremely involved in the training, always making sure we are paying attention, adapted the examples to our day-to-day activities and always provided an answer when asked, even if the information was not added in the presentation.
