PCDOE study notes
- Applying SRE principles and bootstrapping the organization PCDOE notes on SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets and burn rates, toil, the service lifecycle, capacity planning and autoscaling, plus the foundations the guide groups with them, namely the resource hierarchy, IAM, service accounts, shared networking, data residency and infrastructure as code.
- Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines PCDOE notes on Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, Artifact Registry, triggers, approvals, deployment strategies, secrets and keys, Binary Authorization and SLSA, supply chain security, ML pipelines, multi-environment management, GKE fleets and patching, and cloud development environments.
- Implementing observability PCDOE notes on collecting telemetry with the Ops Agent, OpenTelemetry and Managed Service for Prometheus, log routing, retention and redaction, log-based and custom metrics, synthetic monitors, dashboards, alerting policies, notification channels, Cloud Trace and AI-assisted analysis.
- Managing incidents and troubleshooting PCDOE notes on incident response roles and process, mitigating user impact by draining, redirecting, scaling and rolling back, blameless postmortems, and troubleshooting infrastructure, CI/CD, application, observability and performance problems on Google Cloud.
- Optimizing performance and cost PCDOE notes on application performance monitoring, Active Assist and recommenders, FinOps on Google Cloud, observability costs, Spot VMs, committed use and sustained use discounts, network tiers, per-workload optimization for GKE, Cloud Run and Compute Engine, and Provisioned Throughput and token costs for AI workloads.