Chapter 9: Jumping on the DevOps Bandwagon with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Modern enterprises have learned that siloed ways of working and conflicting priorities between development and operations teams hinder their ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity and quality. DevOps emerged to solve this problem with a set of principles and working philosophies to foster collaboration and goal alignment.

In this chapter, you will learn about the five key pillars of DevOps, its cultural principles, and the motivations for incorporating it into a cloud adoption and digital transformation project. You will also learn about the practical ways in which DevOps can be implemented with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices. You will learn about the SRE practices you can drive as a cloud architect and get hands-on experience with infrastructure automation and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) on GCP. Finally, you will learn some best practices...