Description

Description

The Site Reliability Engineering Practitioner® (SREP) Certification course introduces methods for scaling services reliably and cost-effectively within an organization. This training for SRE Practitioners delves into strategies aimed at enhancing agility, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and ensuring transparency regarding service health. The course emphasizes the principles of resilience through design, automation, and closed-loop remediation processes.

Training Objectives

• Successfully implement a flourishing SRE culture in your organisation.
• Manage the organisational impact of introducing SRE.
• Build security and resilience by design in a distributed
• zero-trust environment.
• Prepare for the DevOps Institute SRE Practitioner certification exam.
• Participation in unique exercises designed to apply concepts.
• Get sample documents
• templates
• tools
• and techniques.
• Access to additional value-added resources and communities.
• Continue learning and face new challenges with after-course one-on-one instructor coaching.

Course Outline

• Module 1: SRE Anti-Patterns<br />
• Rebranding Ops or DevOps or Dev as SRE<br />
• Users notice an issue before you do<br />
• Measuring until my Edge<br />
• False positives are worse than no alerts<br />
• Configuration management trap for snowflakes<br />
• The Dogpile: Mob incident response<br />
• Point fixing<br />
• Production Readiness Gatekeeper<br />
• Fail-Safe really?<
• Module 2: SLO is a Proxy for Customer Happiness<br />
• Define SLIs that meaningfully measure the reliability of a service from a user’s perspective<br />
• Defining System boundaries in a distributed ecosystem for defining correct SLIs<br />
• Use error budgets to help your team have better discussions and make better data-driven decisions<br />
• Overall, reliability is only as good as the weakest link on your service graph<br />
• Error thresholds when 3rd party services are used<
• Module 3: Building Secure and Reliable Systems<br />
• SRE and their role in Building Secure and Reliable systems<br />
• Design for Changing Architecture<br />
• Fault-tolerant Design<br />
• Design for Security<br />
• Design for Resiliency<br />
• Design for Scalability<br />
• Design for Performance<br />
• Design for Reliability<br />
• Ensuring Data Security and Privacy<
• Module 4: Full-Stack Observability<br />
• Modern Apps are Complex & Unpredictable<br />
• Slow is the new down<br />
• Pillars of Observability<br />
• Implementing Synthetic and End-user monitoring<br />
• Observability driven development<br />
• Distributed Tracing<br />
• What happens to monitoring?<br />
• Instrumenting using Libraries and Agents<
• Module 5: Platform Engineering and AIOPs<br />
• Taking a Platform Centric View solves Organisational scalability challenges such as fragmentation, inconsistency, and unpredictability<br />
• How do you use AIOps to improve resiliency?<br />
• How can DataOps help you in the journey?<br />
• A simple recipe to implement AIOps<br />
• Indicative measurement of AIOps<
• Module 6: SRE & Incident Response Management<br />
• SRE Key Responsibilities towards incident response<br />
• DevOps & SRE and ITIL<br />
• OODA and SRE Incident Response<br />
• Closed Loop Remediation and the Advantages<br />
• Swarming – Food for Thought<br />
• AI/ML for better incident management<
• Module 7: Chaos Engineering<br />
• Navigating Complexity<br />
• Chaos Engineering Defined<br />
• Quick Facts about Chaos Engineering<br />
• Chaos Monkey Origin Story<br />
• Who is adopting Chaos Engineering?<br />
• Myths of Chaos<br />
• Chaos Engineering Experiments<br />
• GameDay Exercises<br />
• Security Chaos Engineering<br />
• Chaos Engineering Resources<
• Module 8: SRE is the Purest form of DevOps<br />
• Key Principles of SRE<br />
• SREs help increase reliability across the product spectrum<br />
• Metrics for Success<br />
• Selection of Target areas<br />
• SRE Execution Model<br />
• Cultural and Behavioral Skills are key<br />
• SRE Case study