The Art of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) with Azure

Gain a foundational understanding of SRE and learn its basic concepts and architectural best practices for deploying Azure IaaS, PaaS, and microservices-based resilient architectures.

The new edition of the book has been updated with the latest Azure features for high-availability in storage, networking, and virtual machine computing. It also includes new updates in Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, and Azure Load Testing. Additionally, the integration of agents with Microsoft services has been covered in this revised edition.

After reading this book, you will understand the underlying concepts of SRE and its implementation using Azure public cloud.

What You Will Learn:

• Learn SRE definitions and metrics like SLI/SLO/SLA, Error Budget, toil, MTTR, MTTF, and MTBF
• Understand Azure Well-Architected Framework (WAF) and Disaster Recovery scenarios on Azure
• Understand resiliency and how to design resilient solutions in Azure for different architecture types and services
• Master core DevOps concepts and the difference between SRE and tools like Azure DevOps and GitHub

• Utilize Azure observability tools like Azure Monitor, Application Insights, KQL or Grafana

  Who Is This Book For:

  IT operations administrators, engineers, security team members, as well as developers or DevOps engineers.

  Combines SRE concepts with Azure HA/DR architectural guidance Covers best practices on how to integrate blameless post-mortems in a successful way into your organization Contains case studies and exercises next to each conceptual topic

  Autorentext

Unai Huete Beloki is a Microsoft Technical Trainer (MTT) working at Microsoft, based in San Sebastian (Spain).

From February 2017 to July 2020, he worked as a PFE (Premier Field Engineer), offering support and education as a DevOps Expert to Microsoft customers all around EMEA , mainly focused in the following technologies: GitHub, Azure DevOps, Azure Cloud Architecture and Monitoring, Azure AI Services.

Since July 2020, he has worked as a Microsoft Technical Trainer (MTT) on the technologies mentioned above, and served as the MTT lead for the AZ-400 DevOps Solutions exam, helping shape content of the exam/course. As an MTT he focuses on a great variety of services/technologies, with a special focus on DevOps/SRE and Azure AI-related topics.

In his free time, he loves traveling, water sports like surfing and spearfishing, and mountain-related activities such as MTB and snowboarding.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: The Foundation ofSite Reliability Engineering.- Chapter 2: Service-Level Management Definitions andAcronyms.- Chapter 3: Azure Well-Architected Framework (WAF).- Chapter 4: Architecting Resilient Solutions inAzure.- Chapter 5: Automation toEnable SRE withGitHub Actions/Azure DevOps/Azure Automation.- Chapter 6: Monitoring AstheKey toKnowledge.- Chapter 7: Efficiently Handle Incident Response andBlameless Postmortems.- Chapter 8: Azure Chaos Studio andAzure Load Testing.- Chapter 9: Agentic solutions for SREs.