SRE Foundation (SREF)℠ eLearning

• IT and business managers, directors, team leaders, stakeholders, engineers, and anyone else seeking an understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and how it relates to DevOps

• DevOps practitioners who wish to specialize in site reliability engineering

• Organizations wishing to incorporate the vocabulary, principles, concepts, and practices of Site Reliability Engineeringy

• Anyone looking to pass the official SRE Foundation (SREF) examination

• The principles and practices of SRE and how they are used to improve developmental and operational activities

• How SRE helps organizations to scale services reliably and economically

• How to realign organizations for the purpose of site reliability engineering

• How SRE has evolved, and how it will continue to do so

• How to understand, set, and track service level objectives (SLOs)

• How SRE relates to DevOps and other frameworks

• Everything needed to pass the official SRE Foundation (SREF) exam

Why should you take this course?

• Site reliability engineering is in high demand, even outside of DevOps

• SRE can help established DevOps leaders take their understanding of and ability to apply the methodology to the next level

• SRE can help companies to guarantee higher levels of communication, collaboration, reliability, and scalability

• Good e-Learning is an award-winning online training provider and a Trusted Education Partner for the DevOps Institute

• This course comes with several online training assets, including instructor-led videos, knowledge checks, mock exams, and case studies

• Each student can enjoy 6 months access and a FREE exam voucher, along with a FREE resit with Exam Pledge (T&Cs apply)

• The course is fully accredited by the DevOps Institute

An Introduction to SRE Foundation (SREF) Learning Objectives

This module provides an introduction to the course, explaining its rationale, introducing the subject matter and providing an overview of the 'SRE Foundation' syllabus.

This module also provides students with a toolkit:

• Table of contents
• Glossary
• Further resources
• Diagram pack

Module 1: SRE Principles & Practices Learning Objectives

This module introduces students to the discipline of SRE, compares it with DevOps, and presents the six essential principles and practices of site reliability engineering.

Topics include:

• What is Site Reliability Engineering?
• SRE & DevOps: What is the Difference?
• SRE Principles & Practices

Module 2: Service Level Objectives & Error Budgets Learning Objectives

This module looks at service levels, service level objectives (SLOs), error budgets, and error budget policies.

Topics include:

• Service Level Objectives (SLO’s)
• Error Budgets
• Error Budget Policies

Module 3: Reducing Toil Learning Objectives

This module looks at the 'Toil' concept, why it is a problem, and how it can be managed.

Topics include:

• What is Toil?
• Why is Toil Bad?
• Doing Something About Toil

Module 4: Monitoring & Service Level Indicators Learning Objectives

This module introduces service level indicators (SLIs), monitoring, and observability.

Topics include:

• Service Level Indicators (SLI’s)
• Monitoring
• Observability

Module 5: SRE Tools & Automation Learning Objectives

This module looks at automation, defining it in terms of DevOps and SRE. It also introduces different types of automation, as well as a number of automation tools.

Topics include:

• Automation Defined
• Automation Focus
• Hierarchy of Automation Types
• Secure Automation
• Automation Tools

Module 6: Anti-Fragility & Learning from Failure Learning Objectives

This module examines the principle of learning from failure, and how it can be used for anti-fragility and chaos engineering.

Topics include:

• Why Learn from Failure
• Benefits of Anti-Fragility
• Shifting the Organizational Balance

Module 7: Organizational Impact of SRE Learning Objectives

This module introduces how SRE is managed at an organizational level, as well as how SRE can be effectively implemented.

Topics include:

• Why Organizations Embrace SRE
• Patterns for SRE Adoption
• Sustainable Incident Response
• Blameless Post-Mortems
• SRE & Scale

Module 8: SRE, Other Frameworks, Trends Learning Objectives

This module looks at how SRE can incorporate frameworks such as ITIL, Agile, and IT4IT. It also examines emerging trends that will define the future of SRE, including 'customer reliability engineering'.

Topics include:

• SRE & Other Frameworks
• SRE Evolution
• Exam Simulator