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DevOps Institute: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation

Understand the principles & practices that enable an organization to reliably and economically scale critical services.

GK #100661Virtual Classroom Live

FormatsVirtual Classroom LiveTopicsDevOps · GK Polaris

What you’ll learn

Course Introduction
- Course Goals
- Course Agenda
Module 1: SRE Principles & Practices
- What is Site Reliability Engineering?
- SRE & DevOps: What is the Difference?
- SRE Principles & Practices
Module 2: Service Level Objectives & Error Budgets
- Service Level Objectives (SLO’s)
- Error Budgets
- Error Budget Policies
Module 3: Reducing Toil
- What is Toil?
- Why is Toil Bad?
- Doing Something About Toil
Module 4: Monitoring & Service Level Indicators
- Service Level Indicators (SLI’s)
- Monitoring
- Observability
Module 5: SRE Tools & Automation
- Automation Defined
- Automation Focus
- Hierarchy of Automation Types
- Secure Automation
- Automation Tools
Module 6: Anti-Fragility & Learning from Failure
- Why Learn from Failure
- Benefits of Anti-Fragility
- Shifting the Organizational Balance
Module 7: Organizational Impact of SRE
- Why Organizations Embrace SRE
- Patterns for SRE Adoption
- On-Call Necessities
- Blameless Post-Mortems
- SRE & Scale
Module 8: SRE, Other Frameworks, The Future
- SRE & Other Frameworks
- The Future
Additional Sources of Information
Exam Preparations
- Exam Requirements, Question Weighting, and Terminology List

Sample Exam Review

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2026-12-07 — 2026-12-08December 07 - 08, 2026