Making the Most of Your SRE Toolbox - Bootstrapping Your SRE Team through Reuse

Discover how to bootstrap your Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team by repurposing existing tools and infrastructure in this 39-minute conference talk from SREcon17 Americas. Learn from IBM DevOps Services SRE experts Mark Duquette and Tom Schmidt as they share real-world experiences in building an effective SRE organization. Explore strategies for adapting Continuous Delivery practices to SRE activities, including tracking availability, assessing deployment readiness, monitoring system health, and creating synthetic monitors from functional tests. Gain valuable insights on maximizing your SRE toolbox and applying lessons learned to jumpstart your own SRE team's efficiency and effectiveness.

Intro
Concepts to keep in mind
Explore: What's in your toolbox
Tracking availability
Explore: What goes where?
Deployment readiness and system health
Building synthetics monitors from functional tests
Lessons Learned