Site Reliability Engineer Nanodegree

Overview

The content of the Site Reliability Engineer Nanodegree program at Udacity  will focus on both designing systems to automate response to issues with software sites as well as how to respond to common on-call situations.

Nanodegree Skills

• Establishing a foundation in observability

Site reliability engineering business context • Cost-benefit analysis • Application monitoring • Toil reduction • Site reliability metrics • Prometheus • Cross-functional collaboration • Building site reliability engineering teams • Webhook alerts • Synthetic monitoring • Site reliability engineering best practices • Grafana • Cloud availability • Team SWOT analysis • Observability dashboards

• Planning for High Availability and Incident Response

Data recovery • Terraform • Prometheus • Data replication • Service level objectives • Cloud availability • Disaster recovery plans • Database backup automation • Database geo-replication • It asset inventories • Log shipping • Service level indicators • It asset consolidation • Service level metrics • Regional cloud asset deployment • Cloud asset deployment • Service level dashboards • Grafana

• Self Healing Architectures

Toil reduction • Deployment automation • Reliability risk assessment • Feature launch reviews • Cloud capacity management • Rolling deployments • AWS autoscaling • It incident management • Deployment rollbacks • Canary deployment • On-call best practices • Feature design documents • Cloud autoscaling • Basic deployments • Kubernetes scaling • Tiered cloud capacity management • Blue-green deployment • Microservices architecture design • Cloud capacity planning • Self-healing system design • As-built documents • It incident postmortems • Cloud load balancing • Software load testing