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Site reliability engineering (SRE) in GCP - Google Cloud Tutorial
From the course: Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect Cert Prep: 4 Analyzing and Optimizing Technical and Business Processes
Site reliability engineering (SRE) in GCP
- [Instructor] SRE, or Site Reliability Engineering. Let's talk through what a SRE really is. In terms of SRE, it is a discipline that focuses on building and running reliable, scalable, and efficient systems. The goal of an SRE is how you can actually use it to shape modern infrastructure management approaches. And we're going to get into that in a second. And also, we're going to talk about traditional operations and how this is similar but also different in both the approach and the mindset. So in terms of the principles of SRE, a few things to consider are prioritizing reliability. Really, that's one of the key goals. And also to establish a service-level objective, or SLO, and to reduce the toil or reduce the suffering through automation. And when you have a postmortem, so you have an outage, you have a blameless way of getting to the root of the problem. This is how these principles guide SRE in practice and how…