The learning objectives for the SRE Foundation course include a practical understanding of:
– The history of SRE and its emergence at Google
– The inter-relationship of SRE with DevOps and other popular frameworks
– The underlying principles behind SRE
– Service Level Objectives (SLO’s) and their user focus
– Service Level Indicators (SLI’s) and the modern monitoring landscape
– Error budgets and the associated error budget policies
– Toil and its effect on an organization’s productivity
– Some practical steps that can help to eliminate toil
– Observability as something to indicate the health of a service
– SRE tools, automation techniques and the importance of security
– Anti-fragility, our approach to failure and failure testing
– The organizational impact that introducing SRE brings