SRE Infrastructure, Resiliency and Deployment Automation

Site Reliability Engineers must have the right tools and strategies to perform in a fast-paced technical environment. Nine competency areas guide the successful practice of IBM Cloud SREs.

● Applying Site Reliability Engineering principles

● Operations

● Monitoring and incident management

● Security and compliance

● Compute infrastructure

● Networking

● Storage and data management

● Reliability and resiliency

● Deployment automation

In this second course of the three-part Professional Certificate in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), you will focus on the following five SRE competencies:

● Compute infrastructure

● Networking

● Storage and data management

● Reliability and resiliency

● Deployment automation

NOTE: The remaining four SRE competencies are covered in Course 1: SRE Fundamentals and Security.

This course covers approximately 50% of the required content to help you prepare for the “IBM Certified Professional SRE - Cloud V2” certification exam.

If you are interested in pursuing the “IBM Certified Professional SRE - Cloud V2” certification, to improve your passing success, we recommend that you complete all three offerings of the Professional Certificate in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to ensure a successful certification exam experience.

Module 1: Compute Infrastructure

You will cover the following topics:

● IBM Cloud service models: IaaS, PaaS, and FaaS

● Troubleshooting VMs on IBM Cloud

● Troubleshooting clusters on IBM Kubernetes Service

● Troubleshooting clusters on Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud

● Troubleshooting serverless services

Module 2: Networking

You will cover the following topics:

● Applying IBM Cloud networking features

● Implementing and managing virtual networks on IBM Cloud

● Configuring name resolution on IBM Cloud

● Managing performance on IBM Cloud

● Troubleshooting external connections on IBM Cloud

● Troubleshooting interservice connectivity on IBM Cloud

Module 3: Storage and data management

You will cover the following topics:

● Managing storage and data attributes

● Managing storage accounts

● Managing data on IBM Cloud

● Managing data replication and retention

Module 4: Reliability and resiliency

You will cover the following topics:

● Importance of reliability and resiliency for services

● Designing and improving Reliability for systems and services

● Designing for failure and recovering from failure

Module 5: Deployment automation

You will cover the following topics:

● Deployment automation

● Implement Infrastructure as Code

● SRE responsibilities to CI/CD pipeline