DevOps vs SRE? Should I do both? Do I still need DevOps if I work with SRE? How can I start to implement this in my area? This ignite talk is about the fundamentals of SRE and how you can implement them in your work. It will also try to answer some common questions given from a beginner’s perspective.

1. You want to start with SRE? Start with this talk.
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2. What can you expect
should you implement DevOps or SRE or both?
important components explained
fundamentals from a beginners perspective
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3. About me
Daniel Uhlmann
T-Systems Multimedia Solutions
GmbH
passion for Linux and OpenSource
Twitter: @xfuturecs
Blog: xfuture-blog.com
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4. What is Site Reliability Engineering?
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5. Still uncertain? Here is a real world example!
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6. Short recap about DevOps
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7. Which principles we add with SRE
reduce toil
embrace risks
observe distributed systems
SLIs SLOs and SLAs
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8. What is a SLO?
Service Level Objective
agreement within an SLA about a specific metric like uptime or response time
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9. What is a SLI?
Service Level Indicator
measures compliance with an SLO
SLIs are the real numbers of your performance
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10. What is a SLA?
Service Level Agreement
it's a contract between you and your customer
it includes consequences for missing (or meeting) the contained SLOs
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11. What is toil?
Toil is:
manual
repetitive
automatable
work, necessary to run a production service
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12. Not everything is toil
overhead work != toil
team meetings, HR paperwork etc. could have value so it's no toil
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13. Don't just ignore the toil
it can quickly fill 100% of everyone's time
you won't have time for the important work
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14. Less toil is better?
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15. New practices we add with SRE
on-call
effective troubleshooting
emergency response
learning from failure
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16. Emergency response
things break - that's normal
it's all about a predefined plan
if you feel overwhelmed = pull in more people
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17. Blameless Postmortem Culture
"The cost of failure is education."
Devin Carraway
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18. No dedicated SRE Team yet?
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19. Sources
https://sre.google/sre-book/table-of-contents/
https://www.ibm.com/cloud/learn/site-reliability-engineering
https://www.atlassian.com/incident-management/postmortem/blameless
https://pics.me.me/developers-devops-operations-what-the-hell-is-this-no-hate-
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20. Thank you for listening!
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