Applying principles of SRE to multi-cloud—building and operating distributed systems

This book exists because a majority of enterprises are moving or developing systems in cloud environments. Today’s enterprises are in a constant transformation mode. This also means a big change in operations. To put it simply, they have to keep up with the speed of change. Traditional operations can’t handle this. We need SRE in the future of multi-cloud. SRE teams create reliable systems in cloud environments.

There are a couple of important rules for SRE to enable this:

• Automate everything: Automation leads to consistency, but automation also enables scaling. This requires a very well-thought-out architecture. Automation enables issues to be fixed faster since it only has to be fixed in one place: the code. Automation makes sure that the proper code is distributed over all systems involved. With large distributed systems spanning various cloud platforms, this...