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Google Cloud for DevOps Engineers

By : Sandeep Madamanchi
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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 4: Building SRE Teams and Applying Cultural Practices

The last three chapters introduced the fundamentals of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), traced its origins, laid out how SRE is different than DevOps, introduced SRE jargon along with its key technical practices such as Service Level Agreements (SLAs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and Error Budgets, and focused on monitoring and alerting concepts to target reliability.

This chapter will focus on the fundamentals required to build SRE teams and apply cultural practices such as handling facets of incident management, being on call, achieving psychological safety, promoting communication, collaboration and knowledge sharing. These fundamentals and cultural practices can be used as a blueprint for teams or organizations that want to start their SRE journey.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • Building SRE teams – Staffing, creating...