After registration, students will receive a DevOps exam voucher 3 days before the date of course commencement from NTUC LHUB. After completing the course with 75% attendance achieved, students can proceed to register and sit for the official “DevOps Site Reliability Engineering Foundation” exam on DevOps Institute online portal. Students must complete the exam within the validity date of the exam voucher.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a discipline that incorporates aspects of software engineering and applies them to infrastructure and operations problems. The goal is to create ultra-scalable and highly reliable distributed software systems.

This course is an introduction to the principles & practices that enable an organization to reliably and economically scale critical services. Introducing a site-reliability dimension requires organizational re-alignment, a new focus on engineering & automation, and the adoption of a range of new working paradigms.

Course Objectives:

Upon completing this course, participants will achieve an 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 bring