Skills you will learn

  • SRE Foundations
  • Reliability Engineering
  • Automation
  • Alerting
  • Incident Response
  • Postmortem Analysis
  • CI/CD Practices
  • Chaos Engineering

Who should learn

  • Students
  • Software Engineers
  • DevOps Engineers
  • System Administrators
  • Infrastructure Engineers

What you will learn

  • Site Reliability Engineering Course with Certificate

    • Lesson 01: Course Introduction

      02:55
      • 1.01 Course Introduction Site Reliability Engineering SRE
        02:55
    • Lesson 02: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundations

      01:56:25
      • 2.01 Learning objectives
        01:00
      • 2.02 Introduction to Site Reliability Engineering SRE
        04:50
      • 2.03 Core Concepts in SRE
        06:27
      • 2.04 Demo Creating an EC2 Instance
        06:45
      • 2.05 Demo Creating SLIs SLOs and SLAs for a Sample Service
        06:15
      • 2.06 Understanding Error Budgets Concepts and Benefits
        02:16
      • 2.07 Applying Error Budgets Examples and Advanced Practices
        01:42
      • 2.09 Monitoring and Observability​
        06:17
      • 2.10 Overview of Alert Fatigue
        01:45
      • 2.11 Correlating Observability Data
        01:08
      • 2.12 AI ML in Observability
        01:55
      • 2.13 Demo Setting up Prometheus and Grafana for Monitoring Part 1
        08:13
      • 2.14 Demo Setting up Prometheus and Grafana for Monitoring Part 2
        09:29
      • 2.15 Incident Management
        03:45
      • 2.16 Applying Error Budgets Examples and Advanced Practices
        01:42
      • 2.16 Blameless Postmortem
        01:11
      • 2.17 Overview and Types of Incident Communication
        01:53
      • 2.18 Metrics and Automation in Incident Response
        01:29
      • 2.19 Demo Implementing Incident Management with Prometheus Part 01
        13:44
      • 2.20 Demo Implementing Incident Management with Prometheus Part 02
        10:08
      • 2.21 Toil Reduction
        03:20
      • 2.22 Demo Implementing Toil Reduction with Automated Service Recovery Using Shell Script Part 1
        12:27
      • 2.23 Demo Implementing Toil Reduction with Automated Service Recovery Using Shell Script Part 2
        04:37
      • 2.24 SRE Culture
        02:56
      • 2.25 Key Takeaways
        01:11
    • Lesson 03: Reliability Engineering, Automation, Alerting, Incident Response and Postmortem in SRE

      02:26:03
      • 3.01 Learning Objectives
        01:46
      • 3.02 Introduction to Reliability Engineering
        03:56
      • 3.03 Deployment Strategies in Reliability Engineering
        02:52
      • 3.04 Demo Implementing Site Reliability Engineering SRE with Blue Green and Canary Deployment
        14:00
      • 3.05 Introduction to SRE Automation
        02:35
      • 3.06 Infrastructure as Code IaC Concepts Benefits Tools and Best Practices
        04:17
      • 3.07 Configuration Management in SRE Concepts Practices and Benefits
        03:14
      • 3.08 SRE Automation Key Areas and Types
        02:57
      • 3.09 SRE Automation Pipelines Monitoring Scaling and Incident Response
        06:58
      • 3.10 Demo Automating SRE with Ansible and HTTPS Nginx
        08:10
      • 3.11 Principles of Good Alerting
        01:24
      • 3.12 Managing Alert Fatigue Actionable Alerts and Prioritization Framework
        03:06
      • 3.13 Common Alerting Tools
        01:28
      • 3.14 Designing Effective Alerts Multi Level and SLO Based Alerting
        02:08
      • 3.15 Demo Monitoring EC2 Instance and Alerting Strategy with Prometheus Part 1
        13:33
      • 3.16 Demo Monitoring EC2 Instance and Alerting Strategy with Prometheus Part 2
        11:38
      • 3.17 Incident Response Process, Escalation Paths, and the Incident Commander Role
        06:26
      • 3.18 Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Its Importance in SRE
        01:28
      • 3.19 Root Cause Analysis in SRE Techniques and Implementation
        06:34
      • 3.20 Effective Postmortems Blameless Practices and Continuous Improvement
        06:03
      • 3.21 Setting Up System Monitoring Incident Alerts and Response with Prometheus and Alertmanager Part 1
        11:42
      • 3.22 Setting Up System Monitoring Incident Alerts and Response with Prometheus and Alertmanager Part 2
        12:20
      • 3.23 Setting Up System Monitoring Incident Alerts and Response with Prometheus and Alertmanager Part 3
        05:54
      • 3.24 SRE Reliability
        03:20
      • 3.25 Managing Reliability with Error Budgets
        02:21
      • 3.26 Measuring and Improving Reliability
        03:21
      • 3.27 Key Takeaways
        02:32
    • Lesson 04: CI/CD Chaos, Engineering and SRE Practices

      02:05:48
      • 4.01 Learning Objectives
        01:25
      • 4.02 CI CD Fundamentals for SRE
        05:09
      • 4.03 Operationalizing CI CD for SRE Teams
        03:52
      • 4.04 CI CD Tooling and Automation for SRE Teams
        04:23
      • 4.05 Demo Setting Up CI CD Pipeline with Jenkins and Docker Part 1
        12:45
      • 4.06 Demo Setting up CI CD Pipeline with Jenkins and Docker Part 2
        11:25
      • 4.07 Demo Setting up CI CD Pipeline with Jenkins and Docker Part 3
        05:41
      • 4.08 Chaos Engineering Fundamentals
        03:40
      • 4.09 Chaos Engineering Practices
        05:20
      • 4.10 Chaos Engineering in Kubernetes and Use Cases
        02:47
      • 4.10 Demo Implementing Chaos Engineering with Pumba Part 1
        07:19
      • 4.11 Demo Implementing Chaos Engineering with Pumba Part 2
        09:08
      • 4.13 Introduction to Performance Testing
        05:42
      • 4.14 Realistic Load Profiles
        02:14
      • 4.15 Performance Testing in CI CD
        04:50
      • 4.16 Demo Multi User Load Testing with Chaos Part 1
        09:58
      • 4.17 Demo Multi User Load Testing with Chaos Part 2
        10:34
      • 4.18 SRE Fundamentals Core Principles and Supporting Practices
        05:12
      • 4.19 Implementing SRE Workflow Team Structure Tools and Metrics
        05:27
      • 4.20 Implementing Error Budgets and Building a Learning Culture
        02:22
      • 4.21 Use Case Integrated SRE approach
        01:15
      • 4.22 SRE Implementation Challenges Strategies and Future Trends
        03:52
      • 4.25 Key Takeaways
        01:28
      • Knowledge Check
About the Course

Keeping systems reliable at scale is a major challenge for organizations, and Site Reliability Engineering was created to address it. This course starts with the basics and builds your understanding of SRE step by step. You’ll learn the core principles, gain practical skills in reliability engineering, automation, alerting, and incident response, and see how CI/CD, chaos engineering, and SRE practices work together in real production environments. By the end, you’ll be ready to contribute to SRE work in any organization.

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FAQs

  • Is this course free?

    Yes, completely free. You get full access to every lesson and receive a professional certificate at no cost once you complete the course.

  • What is Site Reliability Engineering?

    It applies software engineering principles to infrastructure and operations problems, with the goal of building and maintaining systems that are scalable, reliable, and efficient. It originated at Google and has since been adopted widely across the industry.

  • What is the difference between SRE and DevOps?

    DevOps is a culture and way of working that helps development and operations teams collaborate rather than work in silos. SRE puts that idea into practice through clear roles, measurable goals, and proven methods for building and running reliable systems. In practice, SRE can be thought of as one way to do DevOps with engineering rigor.

  • What are SLOs and error budgets?

    Service Level Objectives are targets for how reliable a system should be. Error budgets are the acceptable amount of unreliability that remains once an SLO is set — they give engineering teams a data-driven way to balance reliability work against feature development. Both are covered in depth in Lesson 02.

  • What is toil in SRE, and why does it matter?

    Toil refers to manual, repetitive operational work that does not contribute to long-term system improvement. SRE actively measures and works to reduce toil through automation because excessive toil crowds out the engineering work that actually makes systems more reliable over time.

  • What does the course cover on automation?

    Lesson 03 covers how to design and implement automation in the context of SRE — specifically, automation that reduces toil, improves consistency, and supports reliable system operations at scale.

  • How does alerting work in an SRE context?

    Effective alerting in SRE is built around SLOs rather than arbitrary thresholds. The goal is to surface actionable, meaningful signals — alerts that indicate a real threat to the user experience — rather than generating noise that trains teams to ignore their monitoring systems. Lesson 03 covers this in detail.

  • What is a postmortem, and how should it be run?

    A postmortem is a structured review conducted after an incident to understand what happened, why it happened, and what changes will prevent it from happening again. SRE postmortems are blameless by design — focused on systemic causes rather than individual mistakes. Lesson 03 covers how to run them effectively.

  • What is chaos engineering?

    Chaos engineering is the practice of deliberately introducing controlled failures into a system to identify weaknesses before they cause real outages. Rather than waiting for things to break unexpectedly, chaos engineering tests resilience proactively. It is covered in Lesson 04 alongside CI/CD practices.

  • How does CI/CD relate to SRE?

    CI/CD pipelines support SRE goals by enabling frequent, reliable, and low-risk deployments. When deployments are fast and safe, the blast radius of any individual change shrinks — which directly supports reliability. Lesson 04 covers how CI/CD fits into a mature SRE operating model.

  • Do I need a software engineering background to take this course?

    A working knowledge of software systems and infrastructure concepts will help you get the most out of this course. It is designed for practicing engineers rather than complete beginners, though the foundational lesson in Lesson 02 builds up the SRE-specific concepts from scratch.

  • What tools relevant to SRE work should I learn alongside this course?

    Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring and observability, PagerDuty or Opsgenie for alerting and on-call management, and tools like Chaos Monkey or Gremlin for chaos engineering are all widely used in SRE roles. This course focuses on principles and practices; pairing it with hands-on tooling experience is the recommended next step.

  • How long does this course take?

    The course covers a lot of material, especially in Lessons 02 and 03, and is fully self-paced. You can move through it at a speed that matches your schedule and experience.

  • Is there a certificate?

    Yes, a free professional certificate is included upon completion, which you can add to your LinkedIn profile or resume straight away.

  • Can I add this certificate to my LinkedIn profile?

    Yes. Once you earn your certificate, you can list it under Licenses and Certifications on LinkedIn — a strong signal to hiring managers and engineering leads that you are actively building your SRE knowledge and taking production reliability seriously.

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