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 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-centered 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

  • Understanding of core Site Reliability Engineering principles
  • Experience with DevOps practices and related tools
  • Familiarity with system monitoring, incident management, and automation

Audience

  • SRE professionals seeking DevOps Institute SRE Practitioner certification
  • DevOps engineers aiming to expand into reliability-focused roles
  • Operations leaders responsible for reliability strategy and execution
 35 Hours

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