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
Testimonials (5)
I generally enjoyed all the content, and it was beneficial that the same instructor taught all three levels of the DevOps course. This maintained synergy and complemented the knowledge, allowing for the adoption of the learning method.
Alberto Barragan Espinosa - MIRACLE BUSINESS NETWORK
Course - DevOps Leader (DOL)®
Machine Translated
Overall, seeing and applying the knowledge directly brings more experience with a real working environment, the emergence of real problems and the application of solutions with the instructor supporting with their experience was very helpful for a fuller understanding of the knowledge presented
Alberto Barragan Espinosa - MIRACLE BUSINESS NETWORK
Course - DevSecOps Practitioner (DSOP)®
Machine Translated
High level of commitment and knowledge of the trainer
Jacek - Softsystem
Course - DevOps Engineering Foundation (DOEF)®
The break down of what DevOps can do. Possible Automation Integration.
Adeyinka Adekoya - NTPF
Course - Continuous Testing Foundation (CTF)®
working with DevOps Toolchain