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Google Cloud for DevOps Engineers

By : Sandeep Madamanchi
Book Image

Google Cloud for DevOps Engineers

By: Sandeep Madamanchi

Overview of this book

DevOps is a set of practices that help remove barriers between developers and system administrators, and is implemented by Google through site reliability engineering (SRE). With the help of this book, you'll explore the evolution of DevOps and SRE, before delving into SRE technical practices such as SLA, SLO, SLI, and error budgets that are critical to building reliable software faster and balance new feature deployment with system reliability. You'll then explore SRE cultural practices such as incident management and being on-call, and learn the building blocks to form SRE teams. The second part of the book focuses on Google Cloud services to implement DevOps via continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). You'll learn how to add source code via Cloud Source Repositories, build code to create deployment artifacts via Cloud Build, and push it to Container Registry. Moving on, you'll understand the need for container orchestration via Kubernetes, comprehend Kubernetes essentials, apply via Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and secure the GKE cluster. Finally, you'll explore Cloud Operations to monitor, alert, debug, trace, and profile deployed applications. By the end of this SRE book, you'll be well-versed with the key concepts necessary for gaining Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer certification with the help of mock tests.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Site Reliability Engineering – A Prescriptive Way to Implement DevOps
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Section 2: Google Cloud Services to Implement DevOps via CI/CD
Appendix: Getting Ready for Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Certification

Chapter 2: SRE Technical Practices – Deep Dive

Reliability is the most critical feature of a service or a system and should be aligned with business objectives. This alignment should be tracked constantly, meaning that the alignment needs measurement. Site reliability engineering (SRE) prescribes specific technical tools or practices that will help in measuring characteristics that define and track reliability. These tools are service-level agreements (SLAs), service-level objectives (SLOs), service-level indicators (SLIs), and error budgets.

SLAs represent an external agreement with customers about the reliability of a service. SLAs should have consequences if violated (that is, the service doesn't meet the reliability expectations), and the consequences are often monetary in nature. To ensure SLAs are never violated, it is important to set thresholds. Setting these thresholds ensures that an incident is caught and potentially addressed before repeated occurrences of...