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The SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) Foundation course is an introduction to the principles & practices that enable an organization to reliably and economically scale critical services. Introducing a site-reliability dimension requires organizational realignment, a new focus on engineering & automation, and the adoption of a range of new working paradigms.

The course highlights the evolution of SRE and its future direction, and equips participants with the practices, methods, and tools to engage people across the organization involved in reliability and stability evidenced through the use of real-life scenarios and case stories. Upon completion of the course, participants will have tangible takeaways to leverage when back in the office such as understanding, setting and tracking Service Level Objectives (SLO’s).

The course was developed by leveraging key SRE sources, engaging with thoughtleaders in the SRE space and working with organizations embracing SRE to extract reallife best practices and has been designed to teach the key principles & practices necessary for starting SRE adoption.

This course positions learners to successfully complete the SRE Foundation certification exam.

An understanding and knowledge of common DevOps terminology and concepts and related work experience are recommended.

The learning objectives for the SRE Foundation course include an understanding of:

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

Course Introduction

Course Goals
Course Agenda

Module 1: SRE Principles & Practices

What is Site Reliability Engineering?
SRE & DevOps: What is the Difference?
SRE Principles & Practices

Module 2: Service Level Objectives & Error Budgets

Service Level Objectives (SLO’s)
Error Budgets
Error Budget Policies

Module 3: Reducing Toil

What is Toil?
Why is Toil Bad?
Doing Something About Toil

Module 4: Monitoring & Service Level Indicators

Service Level Indicators (SLI’s)
Monitoring
Observability

Module 5: SRE Tools & Automation

Automation Defined
Automation Focus
Hierarchy of Automation Types
Secure Automation
Automation Tools

Module 6: Anti-Fragility & Learning from Failure

Why Learn from Failure
Benefits of Anti-Fragility
Shifting the Organizational Balance

Module 7: Organizational Impact of SRE

Why Organizations Embrace SRE
Patterns for SRE Adoption
On-Call Necessities
Blameless Post-Mortems
SRE & Scale

Module 8: SRE, Other Frameworks, The Future

SRE & Other Frameworks
The Future
Additional Sources of Information
Exam Preparations
- Exam Requirements, Question Weighting, and Terminology List
- Sample Exam Review

Certification

Successfully passing (65%) the 60-minute examination, consisting of 40 multiple-choice questions, leads to the SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) Foundation certificate. The certification is governed and maintained by DevOps Institute. The certification is governed and maintained by the DevOps Institute.

Upcoming Trainings

Join our public courses in our South Africa facilities. Private class trainings will be organized at the location of your preference, according to your schedule.

Classroom / Virtual Classroom

08 July 2024