Course Overview

What is Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) actually?

It is an approach to operations that takes the help of software engineering and automation solutions to ensure that continuously delivered applications are running efficiently and reliably.

The SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) Foundation course is an introduction to the principles & practices that allows an organization to reliably and economically scale critical services. 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 grasping key SRE sources, engaging with thought-leaders in the SRE space and working with organizations embracing SRE to extract real-life best practices and has been curated to spread knowledge about the key principles & practices necessary for starting SRE adoption.

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

When is the Next Batch?

We have batches being conducted every weekend in Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, Bangalore (Bengaluru) locations. Enroll yourself now!

What will I learn?

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)
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
Sustainable Incident Response
Blameless Post-Mortems
SRE & Scale

Module 8: SRE, Other Frameworks, Trends

SRE & Other Frameworks
SRE Evolution

Additional Sources of Information
Exam Preparations

Exam Requirements, Question Weighting, and Terminology List
Sample Exam

Is this right for me?

SRE Foundation course is specially designed for:

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

How much does it cost?

Pre Requisites for SRE Foundation Course

There are no as such pre-requisites for this course but IT experience and working knowledge of DevOps is recommended

Training Delivery Style

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation focuses on experiential learning. The material of this course is divided into 60-90 minutes of interactive sessions.

Not only this, if you are participating, expect yourself to get indulged with interesting group activities. By this, you will get a chance to put the theory into action.

This training will be nothing like any ordinary training you imagine. We follow a vast range of creative methodology which will allow you to wrack your grey matter and boost your energy up to participate.

The key features of our training program would be:

Training sessions in a storytelling format
Exhibition of concepts with the help of professional examples
Self-analysis and group discussions
Case studies as the application of the concepts which were taught
Vibrant presentations along with individual and team activities
Post-training reading suggestions

Key Benefits

Participants of this course will have a deep 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

Examination Format

The SRE Foundation Certification is governed, administered and maintained by the DevOps Institute. The Agile Service Manager Certification will be the pre-requisite for future DevOps certification courses.

Exam Format - Objective Type, Multiple Choice
Exam Duration - 60 minutes
Number of Questions - 40 (multiple-choice questions)
Passing Criteria - 65%
Certificate – Within 5 business days
Result - Immediately after the exam

Training Faculty

The Agile Service Manager training will be delivered by accredited trainers. The instructors for this course are highly experienced professionals with 11+ years of industry experience and have trained more than 2000 professionals.

Their core expertise includes:

Extensive IT and software experience, who enjoys sharing his or her knowledge and skills to help you improve your performance.

Instructors Achievements:

Managing large global projects and programs
Setting up from scratch various practices for BI/DW
Project Portfolio Management
Training and consulting to large organizations across the world on Project Management, Portfolio Management, Agile, DevOps, IT Service Management, etc.

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