Site Reliability Engineer

An Introduction to Your Nanodegree Program

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Introduction to Establishing a Foundation in Observability

This lesson will introduce you to the course, including what SRE is and why it matters.

SRE Roles and Responsibilities in Enterprise

In this lesson, we will learn how to distinguish unique SRE roles and responsibilities within an enterprise.

Improving Enterprise Workflows with SRE Best Practices

In this lesson, we will investigate enterprise workflows that can be improved with common SRE practices using cost-benefit analysis.

SRE Teams

In this lesson, we will learn how to define an optimal SRE team structure and work allocation given business needs.

Monitoring System Performance

By the end of this lesson, you will have a fully-functional monitoring system that uses some of the most popular tools in the industry.

Project: Deploying System Observability

In this project, you will apply the skills you have acquired in the Establish a Foundation in Observability course to configure a monitoring software stack.

Course Introduction

Introduction to the course. We will look at how the topics all tie into being an SRE and what skills we'll learn and apply.

SLOs and SLIs

In this lesson, we will learn about how SREs monitor using SLOs and SLIs. We will create queries in Prometheus and dashboard in Grafana.

IT Assets, Availability and Disaster Recovery

In this lesson, we will identify all IT assets, make those assets highly available, and put together a disaster recovery plan for those assets.

Creating and deploying HA and DR infrastructure using Terraform

In this lesson, we will deploy our HA/DR infrastructure using Terraform to AWS.

High Availability and DR of Databases

In this lesson, we'll learn about database reliability and availability and how we can make databases more available. We will then deploy a replicated database cluster to AWS and also see a failover.

Project: Deploying High Availability Infrastructure

In this project, you will apply the skills you've learned in this course, by defining and implementing a resilient infrastructure in a cloud platform.

Introduction to Self-Healing Architectures

Welcome to Self-healing Architectures! In this lesson, you'll learn more about the course and the topic.

Self-healing System Design Fundamentals

In this lesson, you'll learn about self-healing system design fundamentals like single points of failure, tiered architecture, automation strategies, and microservice design.

Self-healing Deployment Strategies

In this lesson, you'll learn about and implement several self-healing deployment strategies

Cloud Automation

In this lesson, you'll learn about several different self-healing cloud automation configurations for microservices and virtual machines.

Project: Deployment Roulette

In this project, you'll put everything you learned in the course into practice by playing the role of an SRE fixing and deploying applications using self-healing strategies

Introduction to Establishing a Culture of Reliability

In this lesson, we cover some introductory material to help you start with a solid foundation.

Improving On-Call Effectiveness

Having a solid on-call is very important to achieving peak reliability. This lesson discusses how to have balanced on-call shifts with a solid incident management process that your team can follow.

Reliability Reviews

In this lesson, we learn how to review your system from the start to prepare for a release. It is important that you have systems in place to find potential risks and develop mitigations for them.

Managing System Capacity

System capacity is an essential part of ensuring reliability. This lesson discusses how to balance system capacity with costs to ensure that resources and money are not being wasted.

Toil Reduction

Toil is the bane of every SRE team, and this lesson is all about how to reduce toil to allow your team to focus on operational work that improves reliability.

Project: Plan, Reduce, Repeat

To wrap everything up, you will complete the final project, where you will be participating in three scenarios that will tie everything you have learned together.

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