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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

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed the suite of tools that are part of Cloud Operations. Cloud Operations is critical for forming the feedback loop of the CI/CD process and is fundamental to establishing observability on GCP. Observability is key to ensuring that an SRE's technical practices – specifically, SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, and Error Budgets – are not violated. This is achieved by gathering logs, metrics, and traces from multiple sources and by visualizing this information on dashboards. This information is used to establish performance and reliability indicators. These indicators can then be tracked with configurable alerts. These alerts trigger when there is a potential violation, and the alerts will be notified on the configurable notification channels. Cloud Operations also offers services that allow us to debug the application, without slowing down, and capture trace information. The end goal is to ensure that the service is reliable. We concluded this chapter...