Operate & Monitoring [SRE]

Difference between DevOps & SRE
- DevOps
  - Its all about culture & using set of tools to build a workflow for teams
  - Typical DevOps pipeline looks like creating clusters, monitoring different teams, configuring a smooth workflow for various teams in an organisation
  - DevOps is more generalised in the way of selecting & using the tools
- SRE
  - It boils down to a certain product & making the system more reliable
  - An SRE may be within a particular team to check for the reliability of the system performance, that is everything working fine & reporting some potential bugs/ alerts that could happen!
  - Its a distillation of the DevOps practices
  - SRE focuses on a specific set of tools
Why to care about SRE & SRE related practices?
- Its a very practical implementation of the DevOps practices & culture
- Focused on the reliability of the system
- Automation plays an important role here!
- DevOps is basically a toolkit, where you learn about different tools & making CI/CD pipelines etc.
  - SRE is the practical implementation of all those tools & your learnings

A DevOps cycle is more in an organisational level
- SRE implements the same cycle, but within a team!
- Focusing more on the monitoring & reliability aspect of the project

Which path to choose SRE vs DevOps?
- What to think about here?
  - what skills do you have?
  - what do you enjoy spending time one?
  - what are your career goals?
Some common questions for a SRE interview
- What are SLIs & SLOs?
- Techniques involved in observability
- what are your responsibilities in your team
- coding or writing some scripts
- looking at some metrics & predicting what should be the next steps to be taken
How to get some experience before applying?
- getting exposure through learning & using the different types of tools out there
- mentoring opportunities like LFX mentorship