3 years ago

Category: Software, Business, Data, Kubernetes, Infrastructure, Architecture, automation, artificial-intelligence

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is one of the fastest-growing enterprise roles and set of operational practices for managing services at scale. During the Site Reliability Engineering SKILup Day June 18, I asked a group of the DevOps Institute Ambassadors why SRE was important to them.

The fundamental goal of SRE is aimed at depicting a prescriptive approach to plan, build, implement, measure and achieve DevOps objectives with a focus on reliability and automation at every opportunity.

Site reliability engineering (SRE) compliments DevOps by measuring and achieving reliability of applications and services working on production and DevOps infrastructure in a prescribed manner using error budgets, team relationships brokered by an error budget, Ops-as-code, and the use of reliability to control deployments.

SRE ’embodies the philosophies of DevOps with a greater focus on measuring and achieving reliability through engineering and operations work.’ SREs also ensure that everyone in the company agrees on how to measure reliability, and what to do when availability falls out of specification.