Infrastructure Operations Fundamentals
Infrastructure operations is the work of keeping the systems that run a service observable, dependable, and recoverable. It connects routine changes, monitoring, incident response, and learning from failures.
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Infrastructure Operations Fundamentals
Infrastructure operations keeps a production service usable while systems, traffic, software, and people change. It is not a tool category or a ticket queue. It is a feedback loop: decide what good service looks like, observe the service, respond when it departs from that state, and improve the system afterward.
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Sources
- https://sre.google/sre-book/table-of-contents/
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- SRE principles for service level objectives, toil, monitoring, alerting, incident management, and postmortems
- https://sre.google/workbook/table-of-contents/
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- Practical SRE material for SLOs, monitoring, alerting, on-call work, incident response, postmortems, configuration, and canarying
- https://sre.google/resources/practices-and-processes/incident-management-guide/
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- Incident roles, tasks, communication, documentation, and improvement without blaming individuals for unintended consequences
- https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/overview/
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- Prometheus as a systems monitoring and alerting toolkit
- Time-series metrics, labels, rules, alerts, and use during outage diagnosis
- https://github.com/wmariuss/awesome-devops
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- Curated DevOps ecosystem discovery including monitoring and log-management tools
- https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/
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- Grafana documentation for visualization and observability workflows
- https://docs.ansible.com/
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- Ansible automation and configuration documentation