1. Introduction to Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

• Overview of SRE: What is SRE and its origin at Google? SRE vs. DevOps: Key differences and similarities.
• Core Concepts in SRE: SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, Error Budgets, and their role in balancing feature development vs reliability.
• Principles of SRE: Automating operations, measuring reliability, and reducing toil.

2. Monitoring and Observability Tools

Prometheus (Core and Advanced Topics)

• Introduction to Prometheus: Overview, architecture, components.
• Setting up Prometheus: Configuration, exporters, scraping metrics.
• Prometheus Metrics Types: Counters, Gauges, Histograms, and Summaries.
• Prometheus Query Language (PromQL): Writing and using complex queries.
• Advanced PromQL Features: Subqueries, joins, regex, alerting, and anomaly detection.
• Alerting with Prometheus: Configuring alert rules, integrating with Alertmanager.
• Federation in Prometheus: Multi-cluster monitoring and scaling Prometheus.
• Prometheus Security: Authentication, TLS, and securing endpoints.

Grafana (Core and Advanced Topics)

• Introduction to Grafana: Visualizing monitoring data from Prometheus.
• Creating Dashboards: Visualizing time-series and logs data in different formats.
• Advanced Querying in Grafana: SQL, InfluxQL, PromQL, and combining multiple data sources.
• Grafana Plugins: Installing, configuring, and using plugins for enhanced visualization.
• Alerting with Grafana: Setting up thresholds, webhooks, and notifications.
• High Availability (HA) Setup: Ensuring Grafana’s uptime and backing up dashboards.

Kubernetes (Core and Advanced Topics)

• Introduction to Kubernetes: Core components, Pods, Nodes, Services, Deployments.
• Kubernetes Cluster Setup: Installing and configuring Kubernetes.
• Kubernetes Networking: Understanding the networking model and ingress controllers.
• Kubernetes Operators: Automating application lifecycle management.
• Helm Charts: Packaging, deploying, and managing Kubernetes applications.
• Kubernetes Security: RBAC, secrets management, securing Kubernetes clusters.
• Kubernetes Federation: Managing multi-cluster Kubernetes environments.

3. Infrastructure Automation and Configuration Management Tools

Terraform (Core and Advanced Topics)

• Introduction to Terraform: Understanding infrastructure as code.
• Terraform Configuration: Writing configurations, managing resources.
• State Management: Remote backends, state versioning, and locking.
• Advanced Terraform Features: Modules, workspaces, CI/CD pipelines integration.
• Terraform Cloud and Enterprise: Collaborative infrastructure management.

Ansible (Core and Advanced Topics)

• Introduction to Ansible: Playbooks, Roles, Inventory, and Modules.
• Writing Ansible Playbooks: Creating simple and complex automation tasks.
• Ansible Vault: Encrypting sensitive data for security.
• Dynamic Inventory: Integrating Ansible with cloud providers for automated discovery.
• Ansible Tower/AWX: Managing multiple automation tasks with Ansible Tower.
• Ansible Collections: Using and creating reusable Ansible collections.

4. Incident Management and Automation Tools

PagerDuty (Core and Advanced Topics)

• Introduction to PagerDuty: Incident tracking and management.
• Advanced On-Call Scheduling: Configuring escalations, time zones, rotations.
• Integrating PagerDuty with Monitoring Tools: Triggering incidents based on alerts.
• Incident Collaboration: Multi-team collaboration during major incidents.
• PagerDuty API: Automating incident creation, updates, escalations.

5. Containerization and Orchestration Tools

Docker (Core and Advanced Topics)

• Introduction to Docker: What is Docker and why it’s essential?
• Docker Compose: Managing multi-container applications.
• Docker Swarm: Setting up a Docker Swarm cluster.
• Advanced Docker Builds: Multi-stage builds and optimizing image layers.
• Docker Security: Best practices for securing containers and images.

Jenkins (Core and Advanced Topics)

• Introduction to Jenkins: Setting up Jenkins for CI/CD pipelines.
• Jenkins Pipeline: Writing Declarative and Scripted pipelines.
• Jenkins Integration with Kubernetes: Running Jenkins agents in Kubernetes.
• Jenkins Security: Managing roles, permissions, and credentials securely.
• Jenkins Blue Ocean: Visualizing and debugging pipelines with Blue Ocean.

6. Chaos Engineering Tools

Gremlin (Core and Advanced Topics)

• Introduction to Chaos Engineering: Key principles of fault injection.
• Using Gremlin for Fault Injection: Simulating resource exhaustion, latency, etc.
• Gremlin Attack Types: Simulating network failures, CPU spikes, memory leaks.
• Post-Incident Analytics: Analyzing system performance after chaos experiments.