Awesome SRE Learning Resources

A curated list of resources designed to level up as an SRE engineer, we try and avoid duplicating content

For a more complete list of resources see Awesome SRE and

Table of Contents

• TL;DR
• People & Events to Follow
• Systems Design
• Incident Management
• Go
• Kubernetes
  • Kubernetes 100
  • Containers
  • Kubernetes 101
  • Kubernetes 201
  • Kubernetes 301
• Networking
  • Networking 101
  • Networking 202
• Toolbox

TL;DR

• 💻 🎥 📄 Kode Cloud - Self-paced courses with labs on DevOps, Linux, Kubernetes 💲
• 💻 🎥 📄 KubeAcademy Free and 💲
• 📄 roadmap.sh - Various roadmaps for DevOps/Backend etc.
• 💻 Katacoda - Interactive browser-based labs
• 💻 🎥 📄 MIT's Missing Semester

People & Events to Follow

• Marc Brooker
• Adrian Hornsby
• Colm MacCárthaigh
• John Allspaw
• SRECon / LISA
• Kubecon 2018 NA 2018 China 2018 EU 2017
• REDeploy
• Resilience Engineering Symposium
• @Scale

Systems Design

• 📖 Systems Design Primer
• 📖 Building Secure and Reliable System
• 📖 The Site Reliability Engineering Workbook
• 📖 Site Reliability Engineering - How google runs production systems
• 📖 Designing Distributed Systems
• 📄 The Resilient Architecture Collection
• 📄 🎥 Amazon Builders Library

Incident Management

• 🎥 Incident Command
• 🎥 AWS Incident Methodology
• 🎥 Black Swans
• 📄 Post Mortem Template
• 📖 Incident Management Handbook ✉️
• 📄 Operational Readiness Review Template
• 📄 Deep Dive into Incident Management 5-part series

Go

• 📖 Ultimate Go
• 📖 Learn Go With Tests
• 🎥 Pratical Go - Real world advice for maintainable go

Kubernetes

Kubernetes 100

• 📄 What is kubernetes
• 🎥 Illustrated Childrens Guide to Kubernetes 📄 Slides 🕔 8m
  • 🎥 Phippy goes to the Zoo 📄 Slides 🕔 16m
• 🎥 Kubernetes the Global Computer, Kelsey Hightower 🕔 15m
• 🎥 Kubernetes 101 🕔 20m
• 🎥 Recorded Kubernetes Workshop 🕔 1d

Containers

• 🎥 Containers from scratch
• 🎥 Containers from scratch - The Sequel
• 🎥 Container Performance Analysis
• 📄 Linux Namespaces and Cgroups

Kubernetes 101

• 📖 Kubernetes Up & Running ✉️
• 🎥 Why you should care about containers 6m
• 🎥 How Kubernetes works 5m
• 🎥 How Kubernetes deployments work 6m
• 🎥 How the Kubernetes scheduler works 7m
• 🎥 Welcome to Kubernetes - Introduction and Toolkit for Getting Started with Kubernetes 📄 Slides

• 🎥 Noobernetes 101: Top 10 Questions We Get From New K8s Users

Kubernetes 201

• 📖 Kubernetes Patterns
• 📖 Kubernetes Operators
• 📖 Knative Cookbook
• 🎥 Next-Gen Infrastructure
• 🎥 Container Journey: Past, Present, and Future
• 🎥 CrashLoopBackoff, Pending, FailedMount and Friends: Debugging Common Kubernetes Cluster and Application Issues 📄 Slides

Kubernetes 301

• 🎥 Containers from scratch
• 🎥 Debugging etcd 📄 Slides
• 🎥 101 Ways to Crash Your Cluster 📄 Slides

Networking

Networking 101

• 🎥 Life of a Packet - 2017 A little outdated with regards to container aware load balancers (NSX-T, ACI, AWS VPC, etc) and network policy providers.
• 📄 Illustrated Guide to Kubernetes Networking
• 📄 L3 Pod Networking
• 📄 Understanding Kubernetes Networking Ingress
• 📄 Service vs LoadBalancer vs Ingress
• 📄 Kubernetes Networking
  • 📄 Part 2
  • 📄 Part 3
• 📄 Understanding Kubernetes Networking Model
• 📄 Demystifying Container Networking
• 📄 Introduction to Modern Network Load Balancing and Proxying

Networking 202

• 🎥 Istio: Sailing to a Secure Services Mesh - 2017 📄 Slides. A little outdated with regards to the roadmap - Most of the items are alredy in
• 🎥 Istio - The packets eye view
• 🎥 Securing Cluster Networking with Network Policies 📄 Slides
• 🎥 Load Balancing Demystified Not specific to containers
• 📄 Linux Sysctl Network Tuning
• 🎥 Deep Dive - Packet level debugging on bridged and non bridged CNI Plugins
• 📄 Antrea packet walks
• 📄 Conntrack Tales - 1001 flows

Toolbox

• stern for log tailing
• kubectx for context switching
• kind for local clusters
• auger - for inspecting kubernetes object stored in etcd
• etcd-dump-logs