SRE, Platform Engineering & Professional Readiness
SRE fundamentals, database operations, platform engineering, security hardening, cert sprint and a production capstone
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Course Content
Foundations
Core concepts and groundwork
SRE vs DevOps — toil, error budgets and key SRE principles
Reading
SLIs, SLOs and SLAs — defining, instrumenting and communicating
Reading
Burn rate alerts — multi-window multi-burn-rate alerting model
Reading
Chaos engineering — principles, blast radius control and GameDays
Reading
On-call — runbooks, blameless postmortems and Alertmanager
Reading
Practice — define SLOs and write Prometheus alerting rules
Exercise
Lab — run a chaos experiment with AWS FIS on an EKS workload
Reading
Core Skills
Essential techniques and patterns
RDS — Multi-AZ failover, read replicas, RDS Proxy and tuning
Reading
Aurora — global database, serverless v2, PITR and blue/green
Reading
ElastiCache Redis — cluster mode, persistence and replication
Reading
AWS DMS — full-load, CDC, SCT and migration strategies
Reading
Backup strategy — automated snapshots, cross-region and RTO
Reading
Practice — design a zero-downtime DB migration plan with rollback
Exercise
Lab — migrate MySQL RDS to Aurora with DMS and validate row counts
Reading
Applied Practice
Hands-on, real-world scenarios
Platform engineering — IDPs, golden paths and paved roads
Reading
Backstage — software catalog, TechDocs and scaffolder templates
Reading
Crossplane — cloud resources as Kubernetes CRDs and compositions
Reading
Istio service mesh — traffic management, mTLS and circuit breaker
Reading
API gateway patterns — rate limiting, auth and versioning
Reading
Practice — add Backstage catalog entry, TechDocs and scorecard
Exercise
Lab — install Istio on EKS and enable mTLS between microservices
Reading
Advanced Topics
Deeper, more complex material
Zero-trust networking — BeyondCorp, ZTNA and micro-segmentation
Reading
AWS Organizations SCPs — guardrails and service control policies
Reading
AWS Control Tower — landing zone, account factory and guardrails
Reading
Secrets rotation — Secrets Manager automatic rotation for RDS
Reading
Certificate automation — cert-manager, ACM PCA and ACME renewal
Reading
Practice — design a multi-account AWS landing zone with SCPs
Exercise
Lab — enable automatic Secrets Manager rotation for Aurora
Reading
Production & Scale
Building for the real world
AWS SAA-C03 — exam blueprint, question patterns and common traps
Reading
AWS SOA-C02 — SysOps domains, monitoring labs and operations
Reading
CKA — curriculum, killer.sh tips, time management and kubectl
Reading
Terraform Associate 003 — workflow, state, modules and key topics
Reading
Portfolio building — GitHub, architecture diagrams and blog posts
Reading
Practice — mock exam sprint across SAA, CKA and TF topics
Exercise
Mastery & Capstone
Projects and final review
Lab — final portfolio deploy with live infra and architecture diagram
Reading
Project brief — production-grade cloud ops platform end to end
Reading
Full IaC — Terraform modules, Ansible roles and ArgoCD GitOps
Exercise
SLO dashboard, burn-rate alerts and chaos experiment report
Reading
Backstage catalog, ADRs and architecture decision documentation
Exercise
Capstone — live infra, GitHub repo, diagram and postmortem
Project
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Topic Overview
What you'll learn
- Core concepts and fundamentals of SRE, Platform Engineering & Professional Readiness
- Industry best practices and design patterns
- Hands-on exercises with real-world scenarios
- Performance optimization and advanced techniques
- Building production-ready applications