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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

Building SRE teams

Google defined the principles of SRE by applying the concepts of software engineering to system operations. Google was implementing these principles even before the term DevOps was coined. They developed best practices over a period of time and essentially considered SRE as their secret sauce for efficient running of their products. With the advent of Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Google became more vocal about the SRE principles and their relevance for the success of their customers that deal with maintaining, running, and operating distributed systems on GCP.

Given SRE is a prescriptive way of doing DevOps, more and more organizations (and this also includes non-GCP customers) are currently tending toward implementing the principles of SRE in a quest to find a balance between service reliability and development velocity. Such organizations will face the following challenges:

  • How do you staff an SRE team?
  • How do you implement or run an SRE team?
  • ...