Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & CloudOps Runbooks Automation

CloudOps Automation to spend less time doing operations

• Challenges
  • Application Support and Operations takes up to ~30%?of Developer time
  • Documentation Advantages BUT it takes X months kick-off ~10%? ongoing
• Goals:
  • Faster Resolution of Issues
  • Simpler Escalations
  • Easier Onboarding
  • Better Training
  • Better Discipline
  • Automation:
    • Improve Outcomes & Lower MTTR (mean time to repair)
    • Reduces Manual DevOps ‘toil’
    • Auto Remediations
    • Increase Observability

Why CloudOps Runbooks Automation based on Python & Jupyter Notebooks

• Online – Collaborative → Improve team collaboration
• CloudOps: Python, JupyterLab
• Cloud Governance as Code: CloudCustodian (open-source rules engine)
• Documentation via text/markdown
• Easy Automation

CloudOps Runbooks

• Runbooks
• Configurations
  • SSO Credentials:
  • Input Params: region, AMI ID, etc. →Name | Description | Value | Required columns
  • Output Params for each Action
• Actions
• Others: GitOps

Cloud Custodian

AWS

Azure