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Practical Site Reliability Engineering

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Published in Nov 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788839563

Pages 390 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Configuration Management

Authors (3):

Pethuru Raj Chelliah

Shreyash Naithani

Shailender Singh

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Title Page

Dedication

About Packt

Contributors

Preface

1. Demystifying the Site Reliability Engineering Paradigm

2. Microservices Architecture and Containers

3. Microservice Resiliency Patterns

4. DevOps as a Service

5. Container Cluster and Orchestration Platforms

6. Architectural and Design Patterns

7. Reliability Implementation Techniques

8. Realizing Reliable Systems - the Best Practices

9. Service Resiliency

10. Containers, Kubernetes, and Istio Monitoring

11. Post-Production Activities for Ensuring and Enhancing IT Reliability

12. Service Meshes and Container Orchestration Platforms

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Prometheus is an open source monitoring tool that was originally built by SoundCloud in 2012, inspired by Google's BrogMon. It is written in GoLang. According to the New Stack Survey of 2017, Prometheus is one of the most widely used tools for monitoring Kubernetes clusters. What makes Prometheus different than other open source monitoring systems is that it has a simple, text-based format, making it easy to get metrics from other systems. It also has a multidimensional data model and a rich and concise query language. Using Prometheus, we can monitor all levels, nodes, container-scheduling systems, and also routers and switches. If we are dealing with large applications and a fast-moving infrastructure, this means that the jobs that we run change rapidly and we have to deploy them around 100 times a day. In this case, Prometheus will be very useful, as it has the ability to discover services. If we have a dynamic infrastructure, we can use Prometheus to detect early failures...

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Authors (3)

Pethuru Raj Chelliah

Pethuru Raj Chelliah (PhD) works as the chief architect at the Site Reliability Engineering Center of Excellence, Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. (RJIL), Bangalore. Previously, he worked as a cloud infrastructure architect at the IBM Global Cloud Center of Excellence, IBM India, Bangalore, for four years. He also had an extended stint as a TOGAF-certified enterprise architecture consultant in Wipro Consulting services division and as a lead architect in the corporate research division of Robert Bosch, Bangalore. He has more than 17 years of IT industry experience.

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Shreyash Naithani

Shreyash Naithani is currently a site reliability engineer at Microsoft R&D. Prior to Microsoft, he worked with both start-ups and mid-level companies. He completed his PG Diploma from the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Bengaluru, India, and is a computer science graduate from Punjab Technical University, India. In a short span of time, he has had the opportunity to work as a DevOps engineer with Python/C#, and as a tools developer, site/service reliability engineer, and Unix system administrator. During his leisure time, he loves to travel and binge watch series.

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Shailender Singh

Shailender Singh is a principal site reliability engineer and a solution architect with around 11 year's IT experience who holds two master's degrees in IT and computer application. He has worked as a C developer on the Linux platform. He had exposure to almost all infrastructure technologies from hybrid to cloud-hosted environments. In the past, he has worked with companies including Mckinsey, HP, HCL, Revionics and Avalara and these days he tends to use AWS, K8s, Terraform, Packer, Jenkins, Ansible, and OpenShift.

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