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There are 7 modules in this course
This Advanced Site Reliability Engineering Training builds strong expertise in designing, operating, and scaling highly reliable cloud systems using modern SRE and DevOps practices. You learn SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, observability, incident management, alerting, RCA, CI CD, chaos engineering, Infrastructure as Code, and performance testing through hands on labs and real world demos using Prometheus, Grafana, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, and Ansible. The course shows how to reduce toil, automate operations, improve resilience, and maintain production ready systems at scale.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Implement Reliability Metrics: Define SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, and manage error budgets
- Build Observability Systems: Configure Prometheus, Grafana, and advanced alerting
- Automate Incident Response: Apply RCA, blameless postmortems, and toil reduction
- Design Resilient Deployments: Use blue green, canary, and CI CD pipelines
- Apply Chaos Engineering: Test system resilience in Kubernetes environments
- Optimize Performance at Scale: Conduct load testing and improve reliability
Ideal for DevOps engineers, cloud professionals, SRE aspirants, system administrators, and IT practitioners.
Build strong foundations in Site Reliability Engineering by understanding core SRE principles, reliability culture, and modern operations practices. Learn how to define and measure service reliability using SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs, create EC2 instances, and apply error budgets to balance innovation with stability. Gain practical insights into reliability metrics, service performance, and scalable cloud operations.
What's included
8 videos1 reading3 assignments
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8 videos•Total 32 minutes
Course Introduction: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)•3 minutes
Learning Objectives•1 minute
Introduction to Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)•5 minutes
Core Concepts in SRE•6 minutes
Demo: Creating an EC2 Instance•7 minutes
Demo: Creating SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs for a Sample Service•6 minutes
Understanding Error Budgets: Concepts and Benefits•2 minutes
Applying Error Budgets: Examples and Advanced Practices•2 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
Course Syllabus•10 minutes
3 assignments•Total 130 minutes
Assessment for SRE Foundations•60 minutes
Quiz on What is SRE?•15 minutes
Quiz on Reliability Metrics•55 minutes
Error Budgets & Observability
Module 2•3 hours to complete
Module details
Master error budgets and observability to maintain reliable, high performing systems at scale. Learn how to calculate and simulate error budgets, reduce alert fatigue, and correlate logs, metrics, and traces for actionable insights. Explore modern observability practices, AI and ML driven monitoring, and hands on setup of Prometheus and Grafana to build proactive cloud reliability management.
What's included
7 videos3 assignments
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7 videos•Total 38 minutes
Demo: Calculating and Simulating Error Budget•9 minutes
Monitoring and Observability•6 minutes
Overview of Alert Fatigue•2 minutes
Correlating Observability Data•1 minute
AI/ML in Observability•2 minutes
Demo: Setting up Prometheus and Grafana for Monitoring - Part 1•8 minutes
Demo: Setting up Prometheus and Grafana for Monitoring - Part 2•9 minutes
3 assignments•Total 130 minutes
Assessment for Error Budgets & Observability•60 minutes
Quiz on Error Budgets in Practice•15 minutes
Quiz on Modern Observability•55 minutes
Incident Management & Toil Reduction
Module 3•3 hours to complete
Module details
Develop strong incident management and toil reduction skills to improve system reliability and response time. Learn incident response fundamentals, blameless postmortems, effective communication strategies, and key SRE metrics. Implement automation with Prometheus and shell scripting to reduce manual toil and enable automated service recovery. Build a resilient SRE culture focused on continuous improvement and operational excellence.
What's included
11 videos3 assignments
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11 videos•Total 57 minutes
Incident Management•4 minutes
Blameless Postmortem•1 minute
Overview and Types of Incident Communication•2 minutes
Metrics and Automation in Incident Response•1 minute
Demo: Implementing Incident Management with Prometheus - Part 1•14 minutes
Demo: Implementing Incident Management with Prometheus - Part 2•10 minutes
Toil Reduction•3 minutes
Demo: Implementing Toil Reduction with Automated Service Recovery Using Shell Script - Part 1•12 minutes
Demo: Implementing Toil Reduction with Automated Service Recovery Using Shell Script - Part 2•5 minutes
SRE Culture•3 minutes
Key Takeaways•1 minute
3 assignments•Total 130 minutes
Assessment for Incident Management & Toil Reduction•60 minutes
Quiz on Incident Response Fundamentals•15 minutes
Quiz on Incident Automation & Toil•55 minutes
Reliability Engineering & Deployments
Module 4•3 hours to complete
Module details
Strengthen reliability engineering and deployment practices to build scalable, fault tolerant systems. Learn core reliability principles, blue green and canary deployment strategies, and hands on SRE implementation. Explore automation foundations including Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, CI CD pipelines, monitoring, scaling, and incident response using tools like Ansible and Nginx for resilient cloud operations.
What's included
10 videos3 assignments
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10 videos•Total 51 minutes
Learning Objectives•2 minutes
Introduction to Reliability Engineering•4 minutes
Deployment Strategies in Reliability Engineering•3 minutes
Demo: Implementing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) with Blue-Green and Canary Deployment•14 minutes
Introduction to SRE Automation•3 minutes
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Concepts, Benefits, Tools, and Best Practices•4 minutes
Configuration Management in SRE: Concepts, Practices, and Benefits•3 minutes
SRE Automation: Key Areas and Types•3 minutes
SRE Automation: Pipelines, Monitoring, Scaling, and Incident Response•7 minutes
Demo: Automating SRE with Ansible and HTTPS Nginx•8 minutes
3 assignments•Total 130 minutes
Assessment for Reliability Engineering & Deployments•60 minutes
Quiz on Reliability Engineering Basics•15 minutes
Quiz on SRE Automation Foundations•55 minutes
Alerting, Automation & RCA
Module 5•4 hours to complete
Module details
Build advanced alerting, automation, and root cause analysis skills to strengthen site reliability engineering. Learn principles of effective alert design, SLO based multi level alerting, and strategies to reduce alert fatigue using Prometheus, Node Exporter, and Alertmanager. Master incident response, escalation paths, RCA techniques, blameless postmortems, and error budget management to continuously measure and improve system reliability.
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17 videos3 assignments
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17 videos•Total 95 minutes
Principles of Good Alerting•1 minute
Managing Alert Fatigue: Actionable Alerts and Prioritization Framework•3 minutes
Common Alerting Tools•1 minute
Designing Effective Alerts: Multi-Level and SLO-Based Alerting•2 minutes
Demo: Monitoring EC2 Instance and Alerting Strategy with Prometheus, Node Exporter, and Alertmanager - Part 1•14 minutes
Demo: Monitoring EC2 Instance and Alerting Strategy with Prometheus, Node Exporter, and Alertmanager - Part 2•12 minutes
Incident Response: Process, Escalation Paths, and the Incident Commander Role•6 minutes
Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Its Importance in SRE•1 minute
Root Cause Analysis in SRE: Techniques and Implementation•7 minutes
Effective Postmortems: Blameless Practices and Continuous Improvement•6 minutes
Demo: Setting Up System Monitoring, Incident Alerts, and Response with Prometheus and Alertmanager - Part 1•12 minutes
Demo: Setting Up System Monitoring, Incident Alerts, and Response with Prometheus and Alertmanager - Part 2•12 minutes
Demo: Setting Up System Monitoring Incident Alerts and Response with Prometheus and Alertmanager - Part 3•6 minutes
SRE Reliability•3 minutes
Managing Reliability with Error Budgets•2 minutes
Measuring and Improving Reliability•3 minutes
Key Takeaways•3 minutes
3 assignments•Total 130 minutes
Assessment for Alerting, Automation & RCA•60 minutes
Quiz on Alert Design and Implementation•15 minutes
Quiz on RCA & Postmortems•55 minutes
CI/CD & Chaos Engineering
Module 6•3 hours to complete
Module details
Master CI CD and chaos engineering to enhance reliability and resilience in modern cloud environments. Learn CI CD fundamentals, automation strategies, and operational best practices for SRE teams using Jenkins and Docker. Explore chaos engineering principles, real world practices, and Kubernetes use cases. Implement controlled failure testing with Pumba to build fault tolerant, production ready systems.
What's included
12 videos3 assignments
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12 videos•Total 73 minutes
Learning Objectives•1 minute
CI/CD Fundamentals for SRE•5 minutes
Operationalizing CI/CD for SRE Teams•4 minutes
CI/CD Tooling and Automation for SRE Teams•4 minutes
Demo: Setting up CI/CD Pipeline with Jenkins and Docker - Part 1•13 minutes
Demo: Setting up CI/CD Pipeline with Jenkins and Docker - Part 2•11 minutes
Demo: Setting up CI/CD Pipeline with Jenkins and Docker - Part 3•6 minutes
Choas Engineering Fundamentals•4 minutes
Chaos Engineering Practices•5 minutes
Chaos Engineering in Kubernetes and Use Cases•3 minutes
Demo: Implementing Chaos Engineering with Pumba - Part 1•7 minutes
Demo: Implementing Chaos Engineering with Pumba - Part 2•9 minutes
3 assignments•Total 130 minutes
Assessment for CI/CD & Chaos Engineering•60 minutes
Quiz on CI/CD for SRE•15 minutes
Quiz on Chaos Engineering•55 minutes
Performance Testing & Advanced SRE
Module 7•3 hours to complete
Module details
Advance your SRE expertise with performance testing and large scale reliability practices. Learn performance engineering fundamentals, realistic load profiling, and CI CD integrated testing with multi user load simulations. Explore SRE implementation at scale, error budgets, team workflows, tools, and metrics. Build a learning culture and implement container monitoring and alerting with Docker for resilient systems.
What's included
13 videos3 assignments
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13 videos•Total 78 minutes
Introduction to Performance Testing•6 minutes
Realistic Load Profiles•2 minutes
Performance Testing in CI/CD•5 minutes
Demo: Multi-User Load Testing with Chaos - Part 1•10 minutes
Demo: Multi-User Load Testing with Chaos - Part 2•11 minutes
SRE Fundamentals: Core Principles and Supporting Practices•5 minutes
Implementing SRE: Workflow, Team Structure, Tools, and Metrics•5 minutes
Implementing Error Budgets and Building a Learning Culture•2 minutes
Use Case: Integrated SRE approach•1 minute
SRE Implementation: Challenges, Strategies, and Future Trends•4 minutes
Demo: Implementing Container Restart Detection and Alerting with Docker - Part 1•12 minutes
Demo: Implementing Container Restart Detection and Alerting with Docker - Part 2•13 minutes
Key Takeaways•1 minute
3 assignments•Total 130 minutes
Assessment for Performance Testing & Advanced SRE•60 minutes
Quiz on Performance Engineering•15 minutes
Quiz on SRE at scale•55 minutes
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DevOps engineers, cloud professionals, system administrators, IT support professionals, SRE aspirants, and IT practitioners looking to build strong foundations in site reliability engineering, observability, automation, CI CD, and cloud reliability practices.
What will I be able to do after completing this course?
Define and manage SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets, implement observability with Prometheus and Grafana, automate CI CD pipelines, apply incident management and RCA practices, perform chaos engineering, and conduct performance testing for reliable cloud systems.
What topics are covered in the course?
SRE foundations, reliability metrics, error budgets, observability, Prometheus and Grafana, incident management, toil reduction, blue green and canary deployments, Infrastructure as Code, automation with Ansible, CI CD with Jenkins, Docker and Kubernetes use cases, chaos engineering, alerting, RCA techniques, and performance testing.
Are there any prerequisites for this course?
No, it is beginner-friendly. Basic understanding of IT or cloud concepts is helpful but not required.
Will I receive a certificate after completion?
Yes, you will receive a certificate validating your expertise in Site Reliability Engineering, reliability metrics, observability, automation, CI CD, chaos engineering, and performance optimization for production-ready cloud environments.
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