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SRE

1. What is Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

✅ Definition

SRE is a discipline that applies software engineering practices to IT operations to create scalable and reliable systems.

👉 In simple terms:

✅ Key Idea

“Treat operations as a software problem.”


2. History of SRE (Google Model)

📍 Origin

✅ Why Google created SRE

✅ Google’s Approach

📌 Key Principle:

“Eliminate toil (manual repetitive work)”


3. Role Comparison

🔹 SRE vs DevOps vs System Administrator

AspectSREDevOpsSystem Admin
FocusReliability + automationCollaborationSystem maintenance
ApproachEngineering-drivenCulture/processManual operations
ToolsCode, automation, monitoringCI/CD toolsOS tools
Work StyleProactiveCollaborativeReactive
GoalMaintain uptime with codeFaster deliveryKeep systems running

🔍 Simple Analogy


4. Reliability in Software Systems

✅ What is Reliability?

Ability of a system to perform correctly over time without failure.

📌 Measured by:


🔧 Example (CSE Level)

Imagine:

❌ Without SRE:

✅ With SRE:


🔑 Key Reliability Concepts


5. SLI, SLO, SLA (Core Concepts)


🔹 5.1 Service Level Indicator (SLI)

✅ What

A metric that measures system performance.

📌 Examples:

🔧 Example:


🔹 5.2 Service Level Objective (SLO)

✅ What

A target value for an SLI.

📌 Example:

🔧 Meaning:


🔹 5.3 Service Level Agreement (SLA)

✅ What

A legal/business contract based on SLO.

📌 Example:


🔁 Relationship

 
SLI → Measurement
SLO → Target
SLA → Promise (with penalty)
 

6. When to Use SRE

✅ Use SRE when:


❌ Not needed when:


7. How SRE Works (Step-by-Step)


🔹 Step 1: Define Reliability


🔹 Step 2: Set Targets


🔹 Step 3: Monitor System


🔹 Step 4: Automate


🔹 Step 5: Incident Management


🔹 Step 6: Reduce Toil


8. Real-World Example (CSE / Setup Level)


🎯 Example: E-commerce Website

🧩 Setup:


❌ Without SRE:


✅ With SRE:

🔹 Reliability Setup:

🔹 Monitoring:

🔹 SLI:

🔹 SLO:

🔹 SLA:


9. Key SRE Principles (Advanced Level)


🔹 Error Budget

Example:

👉 If exceeded:


🔹 Toil Reduction

Examples:


🔹 Automation First


10. Summary (Quick Revision)

 

 

1. Monitoring vs Observability (Core Foundation)

🔹 Monitoring (WHAT is happening)

👉 Reactive approach


🔹 Observability (WHY it is happening)

👉 Proactive + investigative


🔑 Key Difference

MonitoringObservability
Known issuesUnknown issues
DashboardsRoot cause analysis
AlertsDeep debugging

2. Monitoring Fundamentals

✅ Goals


✅ Golden Signals (Google SRE)

  1. Latency – response time
  2. Traffic – number of requests
  3. Errors – failure rate
  4. Saturation – system load

3. Metrics, Logs, and Traces (3 Pillars)


🔹 3.1 Metrics

✅ What

Numerical data over time

📌 Examples:

🔧 Use case:


🔹 3.2 Logs

✅ What

Detailed event records

📌 Example:

 
ERROR: Payment failed at 10:32PM
 

🔧 Use case:


🔹 3.3 Traces

✅ What

Track request journey across services

📌 Example:

User → API → DB → Payment → Response

🔧 Use case:


🔁 Combined View

TypeUse
MetricsDetect issue
LogsInvestigate issue
TracesUnderstand flow

4. Alerting Strategies


🔹 Types of Alerts

1. Threshold-based

2. Rate-based

3. Anomaly-based


🔹 Good Alert Characteristics


❌ Bad Alerts


5. Observability Tools Overview


🔹 Prometheus

✅ What

🔧 Features


🔹 Grafana

✅ What

🔧 Features


🔹 ELK Stack

🔹 Elasticsearch

🔹 Logstash

🔹 Kibana


6. Project-Based Learning (Real Setup)

Now let’s go advanced level with real industry tools


🔥 PHASE 1: Project using Splunk


✅ What Splunk Does


🧩 Project Example: E-commerce App

🔧 Setup:


📊 What You Monitor:


🔍 Example Query:

 
error OR failed | stats count by service
 

🎯 Outcome:


🧠 When to Use Splunk


🚀 PHASE 2: Project using New Relic


✅ What New Relic Does


🧩 Setup


📊 Monitor:


🔍 Example Insight:


🎯 Features


🧠 When to Use


⚡ PHASE 3: Project using ELK Stack (Elasticsearch-based)


🧩 Setup Architecture

 
App → Logstash → Elasticsearch → Kibana
 

🔧 Step-by-Step


1. Install Elasticsearch


2. Install Logstash


3. Install Kibana


📊 What You Monitor


🔍 Example Use Case

Scenario:

Users report slow checkout

Investigation:


🎯 Outcome


7. Comparing All Tools (Advanced Insight)

ToolTypeBest For
SplunkPaidEnterprise log analysis
New RelicPaidFull observability (APM)
ELK StackOpen-sourceLog monitoring
PrometheusOpen-sourceMetrics monitoring
GrafanaOpen-sourceVisualization

8. End-to-End Architecture (Industry Level)

 
Users
  ↓
Application
  ↓
Metrics → Prometheus → Grafana
Logs → ELK / Splunk
Traces → New Relic
 

9. Real Interview-Level Insight


🔥 Key Concept:

“Monitoring tells you something is wrong, observability tells you why.”


🔥 Advanced Tip:

👉 Together = Complete observability stack


10. Summary

 

 

1. What is Incident Management

✅ Definition

Incident Management is the process of detecting, responding to, resolving, and learning from system failures.

👉 An incident = any event that disrupts normal service.


🔧 Example (CSE → Real World)

👉 All are incidents


2. Incident Response Process (Step-by-Step)


🔥 6-Stage Lifecycle


🔹 1. Detection

✅ What

Identify that something is wrong

🔧 How

📌 Example:


🔹 2. Triage

✅ What

Assess severity and impact

📊 Severity Levels:

LevelMeaning
SEV-1Full outage
SEV-2Major feature broken
SEV-3Minor issue

🔹 3. Response

✅ What

Take immediate action

🔧 Actions:


🔹 4. Mitigation

✅ What

Reduce impact (temporary fix)

📌 Example:


🔹 5. Resolution

✅ What

Fix root problem permanently


🔹 6. Recovery

✅ What

Bring system back to normal


🔁 Flow Summary

 
Detect → Triage → Respond → Mitigate → Resolve → Recover
 

3. Root Cause Analysis (RCA)


🔹 What is RCA

Process of identifying the real reason behind an incident


❗ Important


🔧 Example

❌ Symptom:

🔍 Investigation:

🎯 Root Cause:


🔹 RCA Techniques


1. 5 Whys Method

Example:

  1. Why slow? → DB slow
  2. Why DB slow? → Query heavy
  3. Why heavy? → No index
  4. Why no index? → Not added
  5. Why? → Missed in design

👉 Root cause found


2. Fishbone Diagram


🔹 RCA Output


4. Postmortem Culture


🔹 What is Postmortem

A document/report created after incident resolution


🔥 Key Principle:

“Blameless culture”

👉 Focus on system failure, not people


❌ Wrong Approach:

✅ Correct Approach:


🔧 Postmortem Structure


📄 1. Summary

⏱ 2. Timeline

🎯 3. Impact

🔍 4. Root Cause

🛠 5. Action Items


🔧 Example (Mini)


5. Incident Command System (ICS)


🔹 What is ICS

A structured way to manage incidents using roles


🔥 Key Idea:

Clear roles = faster resolution


🔧 Roles in Incident


👨‍✈️ Incident Commander (IC)


🧑‍💻 Operations Lead


📢 Communication Lead


📋 Scribe


🔧 Example Flow


6. Escalation Policies


🔹 What is Escalation

Passing incident to higher-level experts when needed


🔧 When to Escalate


🔹 Types of Escalation


1. Time-based


2. Hierarchical


3. Functional


🔧 Example


7. Real Project Flow (Advanced)


🎯 Scenario: Production API Failure


🚨 Step 1: Detection


📊 Step 2: Triage


👨‍✈️ Step 3: Incident Command


🛠 Step 4: Response


🔧 Step 5: Mitigation


🔍 Step 6: RCA


📄 Step 7: Postmortem


🔁 Step 8: Prevention


8. Advanced SRE Concepts


🔹 Error Budget (Connection)


🔹 Runbooks

Example:

 
1. Check logs  
2. Restart service  
3. Verify health  
 

🔹 Automation in Incident Management

 

9. Interview-Level Insights

 

🔥 Key Statements

 

10. Quick Summary

 

1. What is Automation & Infrastructure

✅ Definition

Automation in infrastructure means using code and tools to create, manage, and scale systems instead of doing it manually.


🔥 Core Idea

“If you do it more than once → automate it.”


🔧 Example (Basic)

❌ Manual:

✅ Automated:


2. Infrastructure as Code (IaC)


🔹 What is IaC

Managing infrastructure using code instead of manual processes


🔧 Example

Instead of:

You write:

 
resource "aws_instance" "web" {
  ami           = "ami-123456"
  instance_type = "t2.micro"
}
 

✅ Benefits


🧠 When to Use


3. Configuration Management


🔹 What is it

Ensuring systems are in the desired state automatically


🔧 Example


✅ Tasks


🔁 Difference from IaC

IaCConfiguration Management
Creates infrastructureConfigures it
Example: Create VMInstall software

4. Automation Tools Overview


Tool TypeExamples
IaCTerraform
Config MgmtAnsible, Puppet, Chef

5. Terraform


🔹 What it does


🔧 How it works

  1. Write .tf file
  2. Run:
 
terraform init
terraform apply
 

🔥 Key Features


🧩 Example Use Case

👉 All in one file


🧠 When to Use


6. Ansible


🔹 What it does


🔧 How it works

 
- hosts: web
  tasks:
    - name: install nginx
      apt:
        name: nginx
        state: present
 

🔥 Features


🧩 Use Case


🧠 When to Use


7. Puppet


🔹 What it does


🔧 How it works


🔥 Features


🧩 Example


🧠 When to Use


8. Chef


🔹 What it does


🔧 How it works


🔥 Features


🧩 Example


🧠 When to Use


9. Real Project Flow (End-to-End)


🎯 Scenario: Deploy Scalable Web App


🔹 Step 1: Infrastructure (Terraform)


🔹 Step 2: Configuration (Ansible)


🔹 Step 3: Application Deployment


🔹 Step 4: Scaling


🔹 Step 5: Maintenance


🔁 Flow

 
Terraform → Infrastructure
Ansible → Configuration
App → Deployment
 

10. Tool Comparison (Advanced Insight)


ToolTypeAgentLanguage
TerraformIaCNoHCL
AnsibleConfigNoYAML
PuppetConfigYesDSL
ChefConfigYesRuby

11. Advanced Concepts


🔹 Idempotency


🔹 Immutable Infrastructure


🔹 Drift Detection


12. Real Industry Architecture


 
Developer → Git → CI/CD
             ↓
       Terraform → Infra
             ↓
       Ansible → Setup
             ↓
         Application
 

13. Interview-Level Insights

 

🔥 Key Points


14. Quick Summary

 

 

1. What is Scalability & Performance


🔹 Scalability

Ability of a system to handle increasing load by adding resources


🔹 Performance

How fast and efficiently a system responds


🔁 Difference

ScalabilityPerformance
Handles more usersHandles requests faster
Adds resourcesOptimizes speed

🔧 Example


2. Load Balancing


🔹 What is Load Balancing

Distributing traffic across multiple servers


🔧 Why Needed


🔹 Types of Load Balancing


1. Round Robin


2. Least Connections


3. IP Hash


🔧 Example Setup

 
User → Load Balancer → Server1
                      Server2
                      Server3
 

🧠 When to Use


🔥 Real Tools


3. Capacity Planning


🔹 What is Capacity Planning

Predicting and preparing resources for future load


🔧 Key Factors


🔹 Types


1. Reactive

2. Proactive


🔧 Example


🧠 Formula Idea

Capacity ≈
Requests/sec × Response time × Safety factor


🔥 Goal


4. Performance Testing


🔹 What is Performance Testing

Testing system behavior under load


🔹 Types


1. Load Testing


2. Stress Testing


3. Spike Testing


4. Endurance Testing


🔧 Tools


🔧 Example


🧠 When to Use


5. Caching Strategies


🔹 What is Caching

Storing frequently used data for faster access


🔧 Why Important


🔹 Types of Caching


1. Client-side Cache


2. Server-side Cache


3. Database Cache


4. CDN Cache


🔧 Example

Without cache:

With cache:


🔥 Tools


🧠 Cache Strategies


Cache Aside


Write Through


Write Back


6. Distributed Systems Basics


🔹 What is Distributed System

Multiple machines working together as one system


🔧 Example


🔹 Key Concepts


1. Consistency


2. Availability


3. Partition Tolerance


🔥 CAP Theorem

You can only guarantee 2 out of 3


🔧 Example


7. Real Project (End-to-End Architecture)


🎯 Scenario: Scalable Web Application


🔹 Step 1: Load Balancer


🔹 Step 2: Multiple Servers


🔹 Step 3: Caching Layer


🔹 Step 4: Database Optimization


🔹 Step 5: Monitoring


🔁 Architecture

 
Users
  ↓
Load Balancer
  ↓
App Servers (Multiple)
  ↓
Cache (Redis)
  ↓
Database
 

8. Advanced Concepts (Interview Level)


🔹 Horizontal vs Vertical Scaling

TypeMeaning
VerticalAdd more power (CPU, RAM)
HorizontalAdd more servers

🔹 Auto Scaling


🔹 Latency Optimization


🔹 Bottleneck Identification

 

9. Real Industry Insight

 

🔥 Key Strategy

 

🔥 Common Mistakes

 

10. Quick Summary

 

 

1. What is Reliability Engineering


✅ Definition

Reliability Engineering ensures systems continue to function correctly even under failures.


🔥 Core Idea

“Failures will happen — design systems to survive them.”


🔧 Example


2. Error Budgets


🔹 What is Error Budget

The allowed amount of failure based on SLO


🔧 Example

👉 Allowed downtime:


🔹 Why Important


🔥 Rule


🧠 When to Use


3. Fault Tolerance


🔹 What is Fault Tolerance

System continues working even when parts fail


🔧 Example


🔹 Techniques


🔧 Real Case


🧠 When to Use


4. Redundancy and Failover


🔹 Redundancy

Having extra components as backup


🔧 Types


1. Active-Active


2. Active-Passive


🔹 Failover

Automatically switching to backup when failure occurs


🔧 Example

 
Primary Server → Fails
       ↓
Backup Server → Takes over
 

🧠 When to Use


🔥 Real Example


5. Chaos Engineering


🔹 What is Chaos Engineering

Intentionally breaking systems to test reliability


🔥 Core Idea

“Test failures before they happen in real life”


🔧 Example


🔹 Popular Tool


🔧 Example Experiment


🧠 When to Use


⚠️ Important


6. Disaster Recovery (DR) Planning


🔹 What is Disaster Recovery

Plan to restore systems after major failure


🔥 Examples of Disasters


🔹 Key Metrics


1. RTO (Recovery Time Objective)

How fast system should recover


2. RPO (Recovery Point Objective)

How much data loss is acceptable


🔧 Example


🔹 DR Strategies


1. Backup & Restore


2. Pilot Light


3. Warm Standby


4. Multi-site Active


🔧 Architecture Example

 
Region A → Primary
Region B → Backup
 

🧠 When to Use


7. Real Project (End-to-End Reliability Setup)


🎯 Scenario: Scalable Banking App


🔹 Step 1: Define SLO


🔹 Step 2: Error Budget


🔹 Step 3: Fault Tolerance


🔹 Step 4: Redundancy


🔹 Step 5: Failover


🔹 Step 6: Chaos Testing


🔹 Step 7: Disaster Recovery


🔁 Architecture

 
Users
  ↓
Load Balancer
  ↓
Multiple App Servers
  ↓
Primary DB ↔ Replica DB
  ↓
Backup Region
 

8. Advanced Concepts (Interview Level)


🔹 Graceful Degradation

Example:


🔹 Circuit Breaker Pattern


🔹 Retry with Backoff


🔹 Bulkhead Isolation


9. Real Industry Insights


🔥 Key Principles

 

🔥 Common Mistakes

 

10. Quick Summary

 

1. What is CI/CD


🔹 CI (Continuous Integration)

Developers frequently merge code into a shared repository, and it is automatically tested.


🔹 CD (Continuous Deployment/Delivery)

Code is automatically built, tested, and deployed to production or staging.


🔥 Core Idea

“Automate the path from code → production”


🔧 Example

Without CI/CD:

With CI/CD:


2. CI/CD Pipeline


🔹 What is a Pipeline

A sequence of automated steps that code goes through


🔧 Typical Pipeline Stages


1. Code Commit


2. Build


3. Test


4. Deploy


5. Monitor


🔁 Pipeline Flow

 
Code → Build → Test → Deploy → Monitor
 

🔧 Tools


3. Deployment Strategies


🔹 What

Methods used to release new versions safely


🔧 Why


4. Blue-Green Deployment


🔹 What

Maintain two environments:


🔧 How it works

 
Users → Blue (v1)
       ↓ switch
Users → Green (v2)
 

✅ Advantages


❌ Disadvantages


🧠 When to Use


5. Canary Deployment


🔹 What

Release new version to small percentage of users


🔧 Example


🔁 Flow

 
Users → 5% (new)
        95% (old)
 

✅ Advantages


❌ Disadvantages


🧠 When to Use


6. Rolling Updates


🔹 What

Gradually update servers one by one


🔧 Example

 
Server1 → update
Server2 → update
Server3 → update
 

✅ Advantages


❌ Disadvantages


🧠 When to Use


7. Version Control (Git)


🔹 What is Git

Tracks code changes and enables collaboration


🔧 Key Concepts


🔹 Repository


🔹 Commit


🔹 Branch


🔹 Merge


🔧 Example Flow

 
git add .
git commit -m "feature added"
git push origin main
 

🔥 Branching Strategy


Git Flow


🧠 Why Git is Important


8. Real Project (End-to-End CI/CD Setup)


🎯 Scenario: Deploy Node.js App


🔹 Step 1: Code (Git)


🔹 Step 2: CI Pipeline


🔹 Step 3: CD Pipeline


🔹 Step 4: Deployment Strategy


🔹 Step 5: Monitoring


🔁 Architecture

 
Developer → Git → CI/CD Tool
                    ↓
              Build & Test
                    ↓
              Deploy Strategy
                    ↓
                Production
 

9. Advanced Concepts


🔹 Continuous Delivery vs Deployment

DeliveryDeployment
Manual approvalFully automatic

🔹 Pipeline as Code


🔹 Rollback Strategy


🔹 Feature Flags


10. Real Industry Insights


🔥 Best Practices


🔥 Common Mistakes

 

11. Quick Summary

 

 

1. What is Security & Compliance


🔹 Security

Protect systems, data, and users from unauthorized access and attacks


🔹 Compliance

Following rules, standards, and regulations (legal/business requirements)


🔥 Core Idea

“Build systems that are secure by design and provably compliant.”


🔧 Example


2. Security Best Practices


🔹 1. Principle of Least Privilege (PoLP)

Give only required permissions


🔧 Example


🔹 2. Defense in Depth

Multiple layers of security


🔧 Layers:


🔹 3. Regular Updates & Patching


🔹 4. Encryption


Types:


🔹 5. Secrets Management


🔹 6. Monitoring & Logging


🔹 7. Backup & Recovery


3. Access Control & Authentication


🔹 Authentication (AuthN)

Verifying identity


🔧 Methods:


🔹 Authorization (AuthZ)

What user is allowed to do


🔹 Access Control Models


1. RBAC (Role-Based Access Control)


2. ABAC (Attribute-Based Access Control)


🔹 Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

Use multiple verification methods


🔧 Example


🔥 Real Tools


4. Secure Deployment Practices


🔹 What

Ensuring deployments do not introduce vulnerabilities


🔧 Key Practices


🔹 1. CI/CD Security (DevSecOps)


🔹 2. Image Scanning


🔹 3. Infrastructure Security


🔹 4. Secrets in CI/CD


🔹 5. HTTPS Everywhere


🔹 6. Zero Trust Model

Never trust, always verify


🔧 Example

CI/CD pipeline:

 
Code → Scan → Build → Scan → Deploy
 

5. Compliance & Auditing


🔹 What is Compliance

Following standards/regulations


🔹 Common Standards


🔹 Auditing

Tracking and verifying actions in the system


🔧 Example Logs

 
User A logged in at 10:30  
Admin deleted record at 11:00  
 

🔹 Why Auditing is Important


🔹 Audit Types


1. Internal Audit


2. External Audit


6. Real Project (End-to-End Security Setup)


🎯 Scenario: Secure Web Application


🔹 Step 1: Authentication


🔹 Step 2: Access Control


🔹 Step 3: Secure Deployment


🔹 Step 4: Encryption


🔹 Step 5: Monitoring


🔹 Step 6: Compliance


🔹 Step 7: Auditing

 

🔁 Architecture

 
User → Auth → App → DB
         ↓
       Logs → Audit System
 

 

7. Advanced Concepts (Interview Level)

 

🔹 Zero Trust Security

 

🔹 Identity & Access Management (IAM)

 

🔹 Security Automation

 

🔹 Threat Modeling

 

🔹 Vulnerability Management

 

8. Real Industry Insights

 

🔥 Best Practices

 

🔥 Common Mistakes

 

9. Quick Summary

 

 

1. What is Cloud Computing


🔹 Definition

Delivering computing resources (servers, storage, networking) over the internet


🔥 Core Idea

“Don’t buy servers — rent them on demand”


🔧 Example


2. Cloud Platforms


🔹 Amazon Web Services (AWS)

✅ Features


🔹 Microsoft Azure

✅ Features


🔹 Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

✅ Features


🔁 Comparison

PlatformStrength
AWSWide services
AzureEnterprise
GCPData & AI

🧠 When to Use


3. Containers and Docker


🔹 What are Containers

Lightweight environments that package app + dependencies


🔥 Problem Solved

“Works on my machine” ❌
“Works everywhere” ✅


🔹 Docker


🔧 What Docker Does


🔧 Example Dockerfile

 
FROM node:18
WORKDIR /app
COPY . .
RUN npm install
CMD ["node", "app.js"]
 

🔧 Commands

 
docker build -t app .
docker run -p 3000:3000 app
 

🔥 Benefits


🧠 When to Use


4. Kubernetes Basics


🔹 What is Kubernetes

Tool to manage containers at scale


🔥 Core Idea

“Automate container deployment, scaling, and management”


🔧 Key Components


🔹 Pod


🔹 Node


🔹 Cluster


🔹 Deployment


🔹 Service


🔧 Example Flow

 
User → Service → Pod → Container
 

🔥 Features


🧠 When to Use


5. Microservices Architecture


🔹 What is Microservices

Breaking application into small independent services


🔧 Example

Instead of:

Use:


🔁 Architecture

 
User → API Gateway
        ↓
  User Service
  Payment Service
  Order Service
 

🔥 Benefits


❌ Challenges


🧠 When to Use


6. Real Project (End-to-End Setup)


🎯 Scenario: Scalable Web Application


🔹 Step 1: Cloud Platform


🔹 Step 2: Containerization


🔹 Step 3: Orchestration


🔹 Step 4: Microservices


🔹 Step 5: Scaling


🔁 Architecture

 
Users
  ↓
Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)
  ↓
Kubernetes Cluster
  ↓
Containers (Docker)
  ↓
Microservices
 

7. Advanced Concepts (Interview Level)


🔹 Container vs VM

ContainerVM
LightweightHeavy
Fast startupSlow
Shared OSFull OS

🔹 Service Mesh


🔹 Auto Scaling


🔹 CI/CD Integration


8. Real Industry Insights


🔥 Best Practices


🔥 Common Mistakes

 

9. Quick Summary

 

🔧 10. Practical / Lab Work (End-to-End Project)


🎯 Project Goal

Build a mini production-ready system with:


🧩 Project Architecture

 
User
 ↓
App (Docker)
 ↓
Kubernetes
 ↓
Monitoring (Prometheus + Grafana)
 ↓
CI/CD Pipeline
 

1. Setting Up Monitoring Dashboards


🔹 Tools Used


🔧 Step-by-Step


1. Install Prometheus

 
docker run -d -p 9090:9090 prom/prometheus
 

2. Install Grafana

 
docker run -d -p 3000:3000 grafana/grafana
 

3. Connect Grafana → Prometheus


4. Create Dashboard

Track:


🎯 Outcome


2. Automating Infrastructure Deployment


🔹 Tool Used


🔧 Step-by-Step


1. Install Terraform


2. Create main.tf

 
provider "aws" {
  region = "ap-south-1"
}

resource "aws_instance" "web" {
  ami           = "ami-12345"
  instance_type = "t2.micro"
}
 

3. Run Commands

 
terraform init
terraform apply
 

🎯 Outcome


3. Creating CI/CD Pipelines


🔹 Tool Used


🔧 Step-by-Step


1. Create Workflow File

.github/workflows/deploy.yml

 
name: CI/CD Pipeline

on:
  push:
    branches: [ "main" ]

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: Build Docker Image
        run: docker build -t app .

      - name: Run Tests
        run: echo "Tests passed"

      - name: Deploy
        run: echo "Deploying app"
 

🎯 Outcome


4. Simulating System Failures


🔹 Goal

Test system reliability


🔧 Methods


🔹 1. Kill Container

 
docker kill <container_id>
 

👉 Check:


🔹 2. CPU Stress Test

 
stress --cpu 4 --timeout 60
 

👉 Check:


🔹 3. Network Failure


🔹 Tool Example


🎯 Outcome


5. Full End-to-End Flow


🔁 Practical Workflow

 
Code → GitHub
     ↓
CI/CD Pipeline
     ↓
Docker Container
     ↓
Kubernetes Deployment
     ↓
Monitoring (Prometheus + Grafana)
     ↓
Failure Testing
 

6. Mini Project (Resume Ready)


🎯 Project Title

“Scalable & Reliable Web App with Monitoring and CI/CD”

 

🔧 Features