Love DevOps? Wait 'Till You Meet SRE
Transcript of Love DevOps? Wait 'Till You Meet SRE
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Site Reliability Engineering
Preventative
Multiple distinct operations teams, or a You-Build-It, You-Run-It model.
SpecialisedEngineers focus on a single service or group of related services.
Decentralised
Primary focus: get away from break-fix, do work that prevents outages.
SRE vs DevOps?
SRE DevOps• Operations• Incident response• Post Mortems• Monitoring, Events, Alertings• Capacity planning• Primary focus: Reliability
• Delivery• Release automation• Environment builds• Config management• Infrastructure as code• Primary focus: Delivery Speed
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The journey to SRE
Improve
Define how the team will work and how we measure success
BuildGet the team up and running!
Vision
Revisit regularly - if its not working, tweak, change, refine.
Team StructureGoals and MetricsResponsibilities
Vision
In 6 months we will:
• Replace monitoring
• DR Plan and Test
How we measure success?
• Number of Incidents
• PIR Coverage
• Service list
• Service Owners
• Team Duties
Size and structure of team
ToolsHiring
Build
Training
Get the team in place
• Start Early!
• Promotion Opportunities
• Existing hiring pipeline
Set things up so they can work!
• Last part of the talk!
• Bootcamps
• Wheel of Misfortune!
The SRE team runs ahead of the rest of the team on reliability and encourages everyone to lift their game
A N D R E S E R N A , D E V M A N A G E R
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In the past the separate ops and dev teams would often pick the solution they were best positioned to implement. I like that our SRE team is able to pick the best solution to the problem instead.
J A M E S B U N TO N , D E V- O N - R O TAT I O N
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