SRE Public Resources for GCP Customers

General Resources:

• SRE books (SRE, Workbook, Building Secure & Reliable Systems)
• A Practical Guide to Moving to Cloud
• SRE success starts with getting leadership on board
• Four steps to jumpstarting your SRE practice
• Anatomy of an incident
• [Coursera]Developing a Google SRE Culture
• [Coursera]Site Reliability Engineering: Measuring and Managing Reliability
• Art of SLOs classroom: The Art Of SLOs

How can you get started with SRE as an engineer/practitioner?

Intro:

• [Recording]Getting Started with SRE by Jennifer Petoff
• [Youtube playlist]Class SRE implements DevOps (Alternative: blog post)

Start by understanding the key concepts and terminology(Reliability, CUJ, SLO, SLI, Error budget)

• [Blog]SRE fundamentals: SLIs, SLAs and SLOs
• [Recording] ‘Achieving Resiliency on Google Cloud’ by Ben Treynor Sloss
• SLOs Cheatsheet
• Run The art of SLO workshop internally (SLOs Public resources)
• Implement your learning in your own payload and create your first SLI/SLO

Start Simple and iterate : Start with 1–3 CUJ and 1–3 SLI/SLO each, use the data that you currently have and solve gaps that you identify along the way.

Additional: Reliability in GCP 5x9 in Google by Brad Calder

GCP Operations (formerly Stackdriver):

• [Demo]Measuring Reliability: Step by Step SLO creation, Cloud OnAir.
• [Blog]Check this step by step guide to get started Measuring Reliability in GCP: Step By Step SLO creation guide using Cloud Operation Sandbox.
• [Qwiklabs]Measure Site Reliability using Cloud Operations Suite
• [Blog]Setting up Cloud Operations for GKE , Troubleshooting services on GKE| by Yuri Grinshteyn
• [Coursera]Logging, Monitoring and Observability in Google Cloud

Advanced:

• How Google’s SRE debug production issues
• The Calculus of Service Availability
• [Recording]Designing for Reliability in Production (Podcast)
• Are your SLOs realistic? How to analyze your risks like an SRE

NALSD Resources:

• Software Engineering Advice from Building Large-Scale Distributed Systems by Jeff Dean
• Introducing Non-Abstract Large System Design(SRE book-Ch12)
• NALSD workshops sre.google/classroom
• Distributed Log-Processing Design Workshop
• Borg cluster management for distributed computing
• Google distributed file system.
• Numbers everyone should know [Recording] | [PDF]

Incident Management:

• [Recording]Maintaining reliable systems, Conf42
• Incident Response
• Postmortem Culture: Learning from Failure
• Postmortem Action Items: Plan the Work and Work the Plan
• Shrinking the impact of production incidents using SRE principles — CRE Life Lessons
• Shrinking the time to mitigate production incidents using SRE principles — CRE Life Lessons

You can find more Google’s SRE content at DevOps & SRE Cloud Blog and CRE Life Lessons