DevOps Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation
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The SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) Foundation? course is an introduction to the principles & practices that enable an organization to reliably and economically scale critical services. Introducing a site-reliability dimension requires organizational re-alignment, a new focus on engineering & automation, and the adoption of a range of new working paradigms.
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Dec 08 - Dec 09, 2026
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The course highlights the evolution of SRE and its future direction, and equips participants with the practices, methods, and tools to engage people across the organization involved in reliability and stability evidenced through the use of real-life scenarios and case stories. Upon completion of the course, participants will have tangible takeaways to leverage when back in the office such as understanding, setting and tracking Service Level Objectives (SLO’s).
The course was developed by leveraging key SRE sources, engaging with thought-leaders in the SRE space and working with organizations embracing SRE to extract real-life best practices and has been designed to teach the key principles & practices necessary for starting SRE adoption.
The history of SRE and its emergence at Google/li> The inter-relationship of SRE with DevOps and other popular frameworks/li> The underlying principles behind SRE/li> Service Level Objectives (SLO’s) and their user focus/li> Service Level Indicators (SLI’s) and the modern monitoring landscape/li> Error budgets and the associated error budget policies/li> Toil and its effect on an organization’s productivity/li> Some practical steps that can help to eliminate toil/li> Observability as something to indicate the health of a service/li> SRE tools, automation techniques and the importance of security/li> Anti-fragility, our approach to failure and failure testing/li> The organizational impact that introducing SRE bringsWho should attend DevOps Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation Course
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This course covers the fundamentals of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), including its history at Google, core principles, Service Level Objectives (SLOs), error budgets, toil reduction, observability, automation, and anti-fragility. It also explores how SRE relates to DevOps and its organizational impact.
There are no required prerequisites. However, it is recommended that participants have an understanding of common DevOps terminology, related IT work experience, and general working knowledge in the DevOps field.
This course is ideal for IT managers, directors, DevOps practitioners, Site Reliability Engineers, Scrum Masters, software engineers, business stakeholders, and anyone leading or interested in reliability initiatives, organizational change, or modern IT leadership approaches.
Participants will learn the history and principles of SRE, how to define SLOs and SLIs, manage error budgets, reduce toil, implement observability and automation, foster anti-fragility, and understand the organizational changes needed to successfully adopt SRE.
The course explicitly addresses this comparison in its outline, exploring how SRE is both related to and distinct from DevOps, including how SRE practices complement other popular frameworks and evolve within modern IT organizations.