RE: DEVOPS INSTITUTE® Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation℠

Course Information

Course Name

SRE: DEVOPS INSTITUTE® Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation℠

Exam code

SRE

Duration

2 Days

Certification

DEVOPS INSTITUTE® Site Reliability Engineering Foundation

Overview

The DEVOPS INSTITUTE® SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) Foundation℠ course is an introduction to the principles and 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 and automation, and the adoption of a range of new working paradigms.

The course highlights the evolution of SRE and its future direction, equipping participants with the practices, methods, and tools to engage people across the organization in reliability and stability. This is reinforced through real-life scenarios and case studies.

Upon completion of the course, participants will have tangible takeaways to leverage in the workplace, such as understanding, setting, and tracking Service Level Objectives (SLOs).

The course was developed by leveraging key SRE sources, engaging with thought leaders in the SRE space, and working with organizations embracing SRE to extract real-life best practices. It has been designed to teach the key principles and practices necessary for starting SRE adoption.

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

DEVOPS INSTITUTE® is a registered trademark of the PeopleCert group. Used under licence from PeopleCert. All rights reserved.

Audience Profile

The target audience for the DEVOPS INSTITUTE® SRE Foundation course includes professionals such as:

• Anyone starting or leading a move towards increased reliability

• Anyone interested in modern IT leadership and organizational change approaches

• Business Managers

• Business Stakeholders

• Change Agents

• Consultants

• DevOps Practitioners

• IT Directors

• IT Managers

• IT Team Leaders

• Product Owners

• Scrum Masters

• Software Engineers

• Site Reliability Engineers

• System Integrators

• Tool Providers

Prerequisites

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

At Course Completion

The learning objectives for the DEVOPS INSTITUTE® SRE Foundation course include a practical 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 (SLOs) and their user focus

• Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and the modern monitoring landscape

• Error budgets and the associated error budget policies

• Toil and its effect on an organization’s productivity

• Practical steps to help eliminate toil

• Observability as an indicator of service health

• SRE tools, automation techniques, and the importance of security

• Anti-fragility, failure approaches, and failure testing

• The organizational impact of introducing SRE

Course Outline

Module 1: Course Introduction

• Course Goals

• Course Agenda

Module 2: SRE Principles & Practices

• What is Site Reliability Engineering?

• SRE & DevOps: What is the Difference?

• SRE Principles & Practices

Module 3: Service Level Objectives & Error Budgets

• Service Level Objectives (SLO’s)

• Error Budgets

• Error Budget Policies

Module 4: Reducing Toil

• What is Toil?

• Why is Toil Bad?

• Doing Something About Toil

Module 5: Monitoring & Service Level Indicators

• Service Level Indicators (SLI’s)

• Monitoring

• Observability

Module 6: SRE Tools & Automation

• Automation Defined

• Automation Focus

• Hierarchy of Automation Types

• Secure Automation

• Automation Tools

Module 7: Anti-Fragility & Learning from Failure

• Why Learn from Failure

• Benefits of Anti-Fragility

• Shifting the Organizational Balance

Module 8: Organizational Impact of SRE

• Why Organizations Embrace SRE

• Patterns for SRE Adoption

• On-Call Necessities

• Blameless Post-Mortems

• SRE & Scale

Module 9: SRE, Other Frameworks, The Future

• SRE & Other Frameworks

• The Future

Module 10: Additional Sources of Information

Module 11: Exam Preparations

• Exam Requirements, Question Weighting, and Terminology List

• Sample Exam Review

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