SRE – Site Reliability Engineering

Introduce SRE principles and practices so teams can build and operate reliable, scalable systems through automation, monitoring, and incident response.

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Audience: DevOps, admins, developers, managers

Duration: 3–4 days

Format: Lectures and hands-on labs (50 % lecture, 50 % lab)

Overview

Learn the principles and practices that enable Google engineers to make systems more scalable, reliable, and efficient—lessons directly applicable to your organisation.

Objective

Introduce SRE principles and practices so teams can build and operate reliable, scalable systems through automation, monitoring, and incident response.

What You Will Learn

SRE introduction, tenets, and Google's approach
Risk & error budgets, SLOs/SLIs
Eliminating toil, monitoring, automation
Release engineering, simplicity, alerting, on-call
Incident response, postmortems, testing for reliability
Capacity planning, load balancing, overload & cascading failure handling
Consensus, cron, pipelines, data integrity, launches, interrupts, engagement models

Course Details

Audience: DevOps, admins, developers, managers

Duration: 3–4 days

Format: Lectures and hands-on labs (50 % lecture, 50 % lab)

Prerequisites:

IT background

Setup: Cloud-based lab • Laptop with Internet • Chrome

Detailed Outline

Sysadmin vs SRE
Risk, SLOs

Toil, monitoring, automation, releases, simplicity

On-call, troubleshooting, incidents, postmortems

Testing, software engineering in SRE

Load balancing, overload, cascading failures
Consensus, cron, pipelines
Data integrity

Launch coordination, interrupts, engagement models
Lessons from other industries