This course equips you with practical Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) skills for modern cloud-native and DevOps environments. You will begin with SRE fundamentals, including reliability principles, the relationship between SRE and DevOps, and key reliability metrics such as SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Principles
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Define and apply SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to measure service reliability.
Build monitoring dashboards and SLO-based alerts using Prometheus and Grafana.
Manage incident response using on-call workflows, escalation practices, and blameless postmortems.
Automate routine SRE tasks and perform GitOps-based rollback for reliable recovery.
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June 2026
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