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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

Exploring SLIs

An SLI is a quantitative measure of the level of service provided with respect to some aspect of service reliability. Aspects of a service are directly dependent on potential user journeys, and each user journey can have a different set of SLIs. Once the SLIs are identified per user journey, the next critical step is to determine how to measure the SLI.

This section describes the details around how to identify the right measuring indicators or SLIs by categorizing user journeys, the equation to measure SLIs, and ways to measure SLIs.

Categorizing user journeys

The reliability of a service is based upon the user's perspective. If a service offers multiple features, each feature will involve a set of user interactions or a sequence of tasks. This sequence of tasks that is critical to the user's experience offered by the service is defined as a user journey.

Here are some examples of user journeys when using a video streaming service:

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