Summary

Systems are getting more complex for many reasons: customers constantly demand more functionality in applications. At the same time, systems need to be available 24/7 without interruption. Cloud platforms are very suitable to facilitate development at high speed, and thus we foresee cloud providers growing fast. In other words, the cloud will definitively grow. This comes with challenges for a lot of businesses. Throughout this book, we discovered that building and managing cloud environments can be complex.

The cloud will grow, and likely the complexity of the cloud will grow too. To ensure reliability, especially with systems that are truly multi-cloud and distributed across different platforms, we should adopt the principles of SRE. The most important principles of SRE have been discussed in this chapter. You should have an understanding of the methodology, based on determining the SLO, measuring the SLI, and working with error budgets.

We’ve learned that...