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Google Cloud for DevOps Engineers

You're reading from   Google Cloud for DevOps Engineers A practical guide to SRE and achieving Google's Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer certification

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839218019
Length 482 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sandeep Madamanchi Sandeep Madamanchi
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Site Reliability Engineering – A Prescriptive Way to Implement DevOps
2. Chapter 1: DevOps, SRE, and Google Cloud Services for CI/CD FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: SRE Technical Practices – Deep Dive 4. Chapter 3: Understanding Monitoring and Alerting to Target Reliability 5. Chapter 4: Building SRE Teams and Applying Cultural Practices 6. Section 2: Google Cloud Services to Implement DevOps via CI/CD
7. Chapter 5: Managing Source Code Using Cloud Source Repositories 8. Chapter 6: Building Code Using Cloud Build, and Pushing to Container Registry 9. Chapter 7: Understanding Kubernetes Essentials to Deploy Containerized Applications 10. Chapter 8: Understanding GKE Essentials to Deploy Containerized Applications 11. Chapter 9: Securing the Cluster Using GKE Security Constructs 12. Chapter 10: Exploring GCP Cloud Operations 13. Mock Exam 1 14. Mock Exam 2 15. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix: Getting Ready for Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Certification

Eliminating toil through automation

Toil was introduced in Chapter 1, DevOps, SRE, and Google Cloud Services for CI/CD, and is defined as the work tied to a production service where the characteristic of that work is manual, repetitive, automatable, tactical, lacks enduring value, and linearly grows with the service. Toil is often confused with overhead, but overhead refers to administrative work that includes email, commute, filing expense reports, and attending meetings. Toil can be both good and bad—it really depends on the amount of toil.

Here are some of the positive sides of performing toil, but in very short and limited amounts:

  • Produces a sense of gratification or a sense of accomplishment
  • Can act as a low-stress or low-risk activity
  • Can be used to train new recruits, especially providing them a chance to learn by being hands-on with the system to learn the inner workings

However, excessive toil can lead to the following problems or issues...

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