Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation (SREF)

 

Course Overview

Introduces a range of practices for improving service reliability through a mixture of automation, working methods and organizational re-alignment. Tailored for those focused on large-scale service availability.
The course fee includes the open book, online Proctored exam. Delegates will receive a voucher for this exam which they can sit, at their convenience, post course.

Who should attend

The target audience for the SRE Foundation course are professionals including:

  • 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

Prerequisites

An understanding and knowledge of common DevOps terminology and concepts and related work experience are recommended.

Course Content

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’s)
  • 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
  • On-Call Necessities
  • Blameless Post-Mortems
  • SRE & Scale
Module 8: SRE, Other Frameworks, The Future
  • SRE & Other Frameworks
  • The Future
Additional Sources of Information
Exam Preparations
  • Exam Requirements, Question Weighting, and Terminology List
  • Sample Exam Review

Prices & Delivery methods

Online Training

Duration
2 days

Price
  • 1,490.— €
Classroom Training

Duration
2 days

Price
  • Germany: 1,490.— €
  • Switzerland: CHF 1,290.—

Schedule

Instructor-led Online Training:   Course conducted online in a virtual classroom.

English

Time zone: Central European Summer Time (CEST)   ±1 hour

Online Training Time zone: Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Online Training Time zone: Central European Time (CET)
Online Training Time zone: Central European Time (CET)
Online Training Time zone: Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Online Training Time zone: British Summer Time (BST)
Online Training Time zone: British Summer Time (BST)
Online Training Time zone: Central European Summer Time (CEST)
Online Training Time zone: Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

Germany

Hamburg