The Site Reliability Workbook. Practical Ways to Implement SRE (ebook)(audiobook)(audiobook)

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• Foreword I
• Foreword II
• Preface
  • Conventions Used in This Book
  • Using Code Examples
  • OReilly Safari
  • How to Contact Us
  • Acknowledgments
• 1. How SRE Relates to DevOps
  • Background on DevOps
    • No More Silos
    • Accidents Are Normal
    • Change Should Be Gradual
    • Tooling and Culture Are Interrelated
    • Measurement Is Crucial
  • Background on SRE
    • Operations Is a Software Problem
    • Manage by Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
    • Work to Minimize Toil
    • Automate This Years Job Away
    • Move Fast by Reducing the Cost of Failure
    • Share Ownership with Developers
    • Use the Same Tooling, Regardless of Function or Job Title
  • Compare and Contrast
  • Organizational Context and Fostering Successful Adoption
    • Narrow, Rigid Incentives Narrow Your Success
    • Its Better to Fix It Yourself; Dont Blame Someone Else
    • Consider Reliability Work as a Specialized Role
    • When Can Substitute for Whether
    • Strive for Parity of Esteem: Career and Financial
  • Conclusion
• I. Foundations
• 2. Implementing SLOs
  • Why SREs Need SLOs
  • Getting Started
    • Reliability Targets and Error Budgets
    • What to Measure: Using SLIs
      • Types of components
  • A Worked Example
    • Moving from SLI Specification to SLI Implementation
      • API and HTTP server availability and latency
      • Pipeline freshness, coverage, and correctness
    • Measuring the SLIs
      • Load balancer metrics
      • Calculating the SLIs
    • Using the SLIs to Calculate Starter SLOs
  • Choosing an Appropriate Time Window
  • Getting Stakeholder Agreement
    • Establishing an Error Budget Policy
    • Documenting the SLO and Error Budget Policy
    • Dashboards and Reports
  • Continuous Improvement of SLO Targets
    • Improving the Quality of Your SLO
  • Decision Making Using SLOs and Error Budgets
  • Advanced Topics
    • Modeling User Journeys
    • Grading Interaction Importance
    • Modeling Dependencies
    • Experimenting with Relaxing Your SLOs
  • Conclusion
• 3. SLO Engineering Case Studies
  • Evernotes SLO Story
    • Why Did Evernote Adopt the SRE Model?
    • Introduction of SLOs: A Journey in Progress
    • Breaking Down the SLO Wall Between Customer and Cloud Provider
    • Current State
  • The Home Depots SLO Story
    • The SLO Culture Project
    • Our First Set of SLOs
      • Availability and latency for API calls
      • Infrastructure utilization
      • Traffic volume
      • Latency
      • Errors
      • Tickets
      • VALET
    • Evangelizing SLOs
    • Automating VALET Data Collection
      • TPS Reports
      • VALET service
      • VALET Dashboard
    • The Proliferation of SLOs
    • Applying VALET to Batch Applications
    • Using VALET in Testing
    • Future Aspirations
    • Summary
  • Conclusion
• 4. Monitoring
  • Desirable Features of a Monitoring Strategy
    • Speed
    • Calculations
    • Interfaces
    • Alerts
  • Sources of Monitoring Data
    • Examples
      • Move information from logs to metrics
        • Problem
        • Proposed solution
        • Outcome
      • Improve both logs and metrics
        • Problem
        • Proposed solution
        • Outcome
      • Keep logs as the data source
        • Problem
        • Proposed solution
        • Outcome
  • Managing Your Monitoring System
    • Treat Your Configuration as Code
    • Encourage Consistency
    • Prefer Loose Coupling
  • Metrics with Purpose
    • Intended Changes
    • Dependencies
    • Saturation
    • Status of Served Traffic
    • Implementing Purposeful Metrics
  • Testing Alerting Logic
  • Conclusion
• 5. Alerting on SLOs
  • Alerting Considerations
  • Ways to Alert on Significant Events
    • 1: Target Error Rate SLO Threshold
    • 2: Increased Alert Window
    • 3: Incrementing Alert Duration
    • 4: Alert on Burn Rate
    • 5: Multiple Burn Rate Alerts
    • 6: Multiwindow, Multi-Burn-Rate Alerts
  • Low-Traffic Services and Error Budget Alerting
    • Generating Artificial Traffic
    • Combining Services
    • Making Service and Infrastructure Changes
    • Lowering the SLO or Increasing the Window
  • Extreme Availability Goals
  • Alerting at Scale
  • Conclusion
• 6. Eliminating Toil
  • What Is Toil?
  • Measuring Toil
  • Toil Taxonomy
    • Business Processes
    • Production Interrupts
    • Release Shepherding
    • Migrations
    • Cost Engineering and Capacity Planning
    • Troubleshooting for Opaque Architectures
  • Toil Management Strategies
    • Identify and Measure Toil
    • Engineer Toil Out of the System
    • Reject the Toil
    • Use SLOs to Reduce Toil
    • Start with Human-Backed Interfaces
    • Provide Self-Service Methods
    • Get Support from Management and Colleagues
    • Promote Toil Reduction as a Feature
    • Start Small and Then Improve
    • Increase Uniformity
    • Assess Risk Within Automation
    • Automate Toil Response
    • Use Open Source and Third-Party Tools
    • Use Feedback to Improve
  • Case Studies
  • Case Study 1: Reducing Toil in the Datacenter with Automation
    • Background
    • Problem Statement
    • What We Decided to Do
    • Design First Effort: Saturn Line-Card Repair
    • Implementation
    • Design Second Effort: Saturn Line-Card Repair Versus Jupiter Line-Card Repair
    • Implementation
    • Lessons Learned
      • UIs should not introduce overhead or complexity
      • Dont rely on human expertise
      • Design reusable components
      • Dont overthink the problem
      • Sometimes imperfect automation is good enough
      • Repair automation is not fire and forget
      • Build in risk assessment and defense in depth
      • Get a failure budget and manager support
      • Think holistically
  • Case Study 2: Decommissioning Filer-Backed Home Directories
    • Background
    • Problem Statement
    • What We Decided to Do
    • Design and Implementation
    • Key Components
      • Moonwalk
      • Moira Portal
      • Archiving and migration automation
    • Lessons Learned
      • Challenge assumptions and retire expensive business processes
      • Build self-service interfaces
      • Start with human-backed interfaces
      • Melt snowflakes
      • Employ organizational nudges
  • Conclusion
• 7. Simplicity
  • Measuring Complexity
  • Simplicity Is End-to-End, and SREs Are Good for That
    • Case Study 1: End-to-End API Simplicity
      • Background
      • Lessons learned
    • Case Study 2: Project Lifecycle Complexity
      • Background
      • What we decided to do
      • Lessons learned
  • Regaining Simplicity
    • Case Study 3: Simplification of the Display Ads Spiderweb
      • Background
      • What we decided to do
      • Lessons learned
    • Case Study 4: Running Hundreds of Microservices on a Shared Platform
      • Background
      • What we decided to do
      • Design
      • Outcomes
      • Lessons learned
    • Case Study 5: pDNS No Longer Depends on Itself
      • Background
      • Problem statement
      • What we decided to do
      • Lessons learned
  • Conclusion
• II. Practices
• 8. On-Call
  • Recap of Being On-Call Chapter of First SRE Book
  • Example On-Call Setups Within Google and Outside Google
    • Google: Forming a New Team
      • Initial scenario
      • Training roadmap
      • Afterword
    • Evernote: Finding Our Feet in the Cloud
      • Moving our on-prem infrastructure to the cloud
      • Adjusting our on-call policies and processes
      • Restructuring our monitoring and metrics
      • Tracking our performance over time
      • Engaging with CRE
      • Sustaining a self-perpetuating cycle
  • Practical Implementation Details
    • Anatomy of Pager Load
      • Scenario: A team in overload
      • Pager load inputs
        • Preexisting bugs
        • New bugs
        • Identification delay
        • Mitigation delay
        • Alerting
        • Rigor of follow-up
        • Data quality
        • Vigilance
    • On-Call Flexibility
      • Scenario: A change in personal circumstances
        • Automate on-call scheduling
        • Plan for short-term swaps
        • Plan for long-term breaks
        • Plan for part-time work schedules
    • On-Call Team Dynamics
      • Scenario: A culture of survive the week
        • Proposal one: Empower your ops engineers
        • Proposal two: Improve team relations
  • Conclusion
• 9. Incident Response
  • Incident Management at Google
    • Incident Command System
    • Main Roles in Incident Response
  • Case Studies
    • Case Study 1: Software BugThe Lights Are On but No Ones (Google) Home
      • Context
      • Incident
      • Review
    • Case Study 2: Service FaultCache Me If You Can
      • Context
      • Incident
      • Review
        • What went well?
        • What could have been handled better?
    • Case Study 3: Power OutageLightning Never Strikes TwiceUntil It Does
      • Context
      • Incident
      • Review
    • Case Study 4: Incident Response at PagerDuty
      • Major incident response at PagerDuty
      • Tools used for incident response
  • Putting Best Practices into Practice
    • Incident Response Training
    • Prepare Beforehand
      • Decide on a communication channel
      • Keep your audience informed
      • Prepare a list of contacts
      • Establish criteria for an incident
    • Drills
  • Conclusion
• 10. Postmortem Culture: Learning from Failure
  • Case Study
  • Bad Postmortem
    • Why Is This Postmortem Bad?
      • Missing context
      • Key details omitted
      • Key action item characteristics missing
      • Counterproductive finger pointing
      • Animated language
      • Missing ownership
      • Limited audience
      • Delayed publication
  • Good Postmortem
    • Why Is This Postmortem Better?
      • Clarity
      • Concrete action items
      • Blamelessness
      • Depth
      • Promptness
      • Conciseness
  • Organizational Incentives
    • Model and Enforce Blameless Behavior
      • Use blameless language
      • Include all incident participants in postmortem authoring
      • Gather feedback
    • Reward Postmortem Outcomes
      • Reward action item closeout
      • Reward positive organizational change
      • Highlight improved reliability
      • Hold up postmortem owners as leaders
      • Gamification
    • Share Postmortems Openly
      • Share announcements across the organization
      • Conduct cross-team reviews
      • Hold training exercises
      • Report incidents and outages weekly
    • Respond to Postmortem Culture Failures
      • Avoiding association
      • Failing to reinforce the culture
      • Lacking time to write postmortems
      • Repeating incidents
  • Tools and Templates
    • Postmortem Templates
      • Googles template
      • Other industry templates
    • Postmortem Tooling
      • Postmortem creation
      • Postmortem checklist
      • Postmortem storage
      • Postmortem follow-up
      • Postmortem analysis
      • Other industry tools
  • Conclusion
• 11. Managing Load
  • Google Cloud Load Balancing
    • Anycast
      • Stabilized anycast
    • Maglev
    • Global Software Load Balancer
    • Google Front End
    • GCLB: Low Latency
    • GCLB: High Availability
    • Case Study 1: Pokémon GO on GCLB
      • Migrating to GCLB
      • Resolving the issue
      • Future-proofing
  • Autoscaling
    • Handling Unhealthy Machines
    • Working with Stateful Systems
    • Configuring Conservatively
    • Setting Constraints
    • Including Kill Switches and Manual Overrides
    • Avoiding Overloading Backends
    • Avoiding Traffic Imbalance
  • Combining Strategies to Manage Load
    • Case Study 2: When Load Shedding Attacks
      • What was happening?
      • What went wrong?
      • Lessons learned
  • Conclusion
• 12. Introducing Non-Abstract Large System Design
  • What Is NALSD?
  • Why Non-Abstract?
  • AdWords Example
    • Design Process
    • Initial Requirements
    • One Machine
      • Calculations
      • Evaluation
    • Distributed System
      • MapReduce
        • Evaluation
      • LogJoiner
        • Calculations
      • Sharded LogJoiner
        • Evaluation
      • Multidatacenter
        • Calculations
        • Evaluation
  • Conclusion
• 13. Data Processing Pipelines
  • Pipeline Applications
    • Event Processing/Data Transformation to Order or Structure Data
    • Data Analytics
    • Machine Learning
  • Pipeline Best Practices
    • Define and Measure Service Level Objectives
      • Data freshness
      • Data correctness
      • Data isolation/load balancing
      • End-to-end measurement
    • Plan for Dependency Failure
    • Create and Maintain Pipeline Documentation
      • System diagrams
      • Process documentation
      • Playbook entries
    • Map Your Development Lifecycle
      • Prototyping
      • Testing with a 1% dry run
      • Staging
      • Canarying
      • Performing a partial deployment
      • Deploying to production
    • Reduce Hotspotting and Workload Patterns
    • Implement Autoscaling and Resource Planning
    • Adhere to Access Control and Security Policies
    • Plan Escalation Paths
  • Pipeline Requirements and Design
    • What Features Do You Need?
    • Idempotent and Two-Phase Mutations
    • Checkpointing
    • Code Patterns
      • Reusing code
      • Using the microservice approach to creating pipelines
    • Pipeline Production Readiness
      • Pipeline maturity matrix
  • Pipeline Failures: Prevention and Response
    • Potential Failure Modes
      • Delayed data
      • Corrupt data
    • Potential Causes
      • Pipeline dependencies
      • Pipeline application or configuration
      • Unexpected resource growth
      • Region-level outage
  • Case Study: Spotify
    • Event Delivery
    • Event Delivery System Design and Architecture
      • Data collection
      • Extract Transform Load
      • Data delivery
    • Event Delivery System Operation
      • Timeliness
      • Skewness
      • Completeness
    • Customer Integration and Support
      • Documentation
      • System monitoring
      • Capacity planning
      • Development process
      • Incident handling
    • Summary
  • Conclusion
• 14. Configuration Design and Best Practices
  • What Is Configuration?
    • Configuration and Reliability
    • Separating Philosophy and Mechanics
  • Configuration Philosophy
    • Configuration Asks Users Questions
    • Questions Should Be Close to User Goals
    • Mandatory and Optional Questions
    • Escaping Simplicity
  • Mechanics of Configuration
    • Separate Configuration and Resulting Data
    • Importance of Tooling
      • Semantic validation
      • Configuration syntax
    • Ownership and Change Tracking
    • Safe Configuration Change Application
  • Conclusion
• 15. Configuration Specifics
  • Configuration-Induced Toil
  • Reducing Configuration-Induced Toil
  • Critical Properties and Pitfalls of Configuration Systems
    • Pitfall 1: Failing to Recognize Configuration as a Programming Language Problem
    • Pitfall 2: Designing Accidental or Ad Hoc Language Features
    • Pitfall 3: Building Too Much Domain-Specific Optimization
    • Pitfall 4: Interleaving Configuration Evaluation with Side Effects
    • Pitfall 5: Using an Existing General-Purpose Scripting Language Like Python, Ruby, or Lua
  • Integrating a Configuration Language
    • Generating Config in Specific Formats
    • Driving Multiple Applications
  • Integrating an Existing Application: Kubernetes
    • What Kubernetes Provides
    • Example Kubernetes Config
    • Integrating the Configuration Language
  • Integrating Custom Applications (In-House Software)
  • Effectively Operating a Configuration System
    • Versioning
    • Source Control
    • Tooling
    • Testing
  • When to Evaluate Configuration
    • Very Early: Checking in the JSON
      • Pros
      • Cons
    • Middle of the Road: Evaluate at Build Time
      • Pros
      • Cons
    • Late: Evaluate at Runtime
      • Pros
      • Cons
  • Guarding Against Abusive Configuration
  • Conclusion
• 16. Canarying Releases
  • Release Engineering Principles
  • Balancing Release Velocity and Reliability
  • What Is Canarying?
  • Release Engineering and Canarying
    • Requirements of a Canary Process
    • Our Example Setup
  • A Roll Forward Deployment Versus a Simple Canary Deployment
  • Canary Implementation
    • Minimizing Risk to SLOs and the Error Budget
    • Choosing a Canary Population and Duration
  • Selecting and Evaluating Metrics
    • Metrics Should Indicate Problems
    • Metrics Should Be Representative and Attributable
    • Before/After Evaluation Is Risky
    • Use a Gradual Canary for Better Metric Selection
  • Dependencies and Isolation
  • Canarying in Noninteractive Systems
  • Requirements on Monitoring Data
  • Related Concepts
    • Blue/Green Deployment
    • Artificial Load Generation
    • Traffic Teeing
  • Conclusion
• III. Processes
• 17. Identifying and Recovering from Overload
  • From Load to Overload
  • Case Study 1: Work Overload When Half a Team Leaves
    • Background
    • Problem Statement
    • What We Decided to Do
    • Implementation
    • Lessons Learned
  • Case Study 2: Perceived Overload After Organizational and Workload Changes
    • Background
    • Problem Statement
    • What We Decided to Do
    • Implementation
      • Short-term actions
      • Mid-term actions
      • Long-term actions
    • Effects
    • Lessons Learned
  • Strategies for Mitigating Overload
    • Recognizing the Symptoms of Overload
    • Reducing Overload and Restoring Team Health
      • Identify and alleviate psychosocial stressors
      • Prioritize and triage within one quarter
      • Protect yourself in the future
  • Conclusion
• 18. SRE Engagement Model
  • The Service Lifecycle
    • Phase 1: Architecture and Design
    • Phase 2: Active Development
    • Phase 3: Limited Availability
    • Phase 4: General Availability
    • Phase 5: Deprecation
    • Phase 6: Abandoned
    • Phase 7: Unsupported
  • Setting Up the Relationship
    • Communicating Business and Production Priorities
    • Identifying Risks
    • Aligning Goals
    • Setting Ground Rules
    • Planning and Executing
  • Sustaining an Effective Ongoing Relationship
    • Investing Time in Working Better Together
    • Maintaining an Open Line of Communication
    • Performing Regular Service Reviews
    • Reassessing When Ground Rules Start to Slip
    • Adjusting Priorities According to Your SLOs and Error Budget
    • Handling Mistakes Appropriately
      • Sleep on it
      • Meet in person (or as close to it as possible) to resolve issues
      • Be positive
      • Understand differences in communication
  • Scaling SRE to Larger Environments
    • Supporting Multiple Services with a Single SRE Team
    • Structuring a Multiple SRE Team Environment
    • Adapting SRE Team Structures to Changing Circumstances
    • Running Cohesive Distributed SRE Teams
  • Ending the Relationship
    • Case Study 1: Ares
    • Case Study 2: Data Analysis Pipeline
      • The pivot
      • Communication breakdown
      • Decommission
  • Conclusion
• 19. SRE: Reaching Beyond Your Walls
  • Truths We Hold to Be Self-Evident
    • Reliability Is the Most Important Feature
    • Your Users, Not Your Monitoring, Decide Your Reliability
    • If You Run a Platform, Then Reliability Is a Partnership
    • Everything Important Eventually Becomes a Platform
    • When Your Customers Have a Hard Time, You Have to Slow Down
    • You Will Need to Practice SRE with Your Customers
  • How to: SRE with Your Customers
    • Step 1: SLOs and SLIs Are How You Speak
    • Step 2: Audit the Monitoring and Build Shared Dashboards
    • Step 3: Measure and Renegotiate
    • Step 4: Design Reviews and Risk Analysis
    • Step 5: Practice, Practice, Practice
    • Be Thoughtful and Disciplined
  • Conclusion
• 20. SRE Team Lifecycles
  • SRE Practices Without SREs
  • Starting an SRE Role
    • Finding Your First SRE
    • Placing Your First SRE
    • Bootstrapping Your First SRE
    • Distributed SREs
  • Your First SRE Team
    • Forming
      • Creating a new team as part of a major project
      • Assembling a horizontal SRE team
      • Converting a team in place
    • Storming
      • Risks and mitigations
        • New team as part of a major project
        • Horizontal SRE team
        • A team converted in place
    • Norming
    • Performing
      • Partnering on architecture
      • Self-regulating workload
  • Making More SRE Teams
    • Service Complexity
      • Where to split
      • Pitfalls
    • SRE Rollout
    • Geographical Splits
      • Placement: How many time zones apart should the teams be?
      • People and projects: Seeding the team
      • Parity: Distributing Work Between Offices and Avoiding a Night Shift
      • Placement: What about having three shifts?
      • Timing: Should both halves of the team start at the same time?
      • Finance: Travel budget
      • Leadership: Joint ownership of a service
  • Suggested Practices for Running Many Teams
    • Mission Control
    • SRE Exchange
    • Training
    • Horizontal Projects
    • SRE Mobility
    • Travel
    • Launch Coordination Engineering Teams
    • Production Excellence
    • SRE Funding and Hiring
  • Conclusion
• 21. Organizational Change Management in SRE
  • SRE Embraces Change
  • Introduction to Change Management
    • Lewins Three-Stage Model
    • McKinseys 7-S Model
    • Kotters Eight-Step Process for Leading Change
    • The Prosci ADKAR Model
    • Emotion-Based Models
    • The Deming Cycle
    • How These Theories Apply to SRE
  • Case Study 1: Scaling WazeFrom Ad Hoc to Planned Change
    • Background
    • The Messaging Queue: Replacing a System While Maintaining Reliability
    • The Next Cycle of Change: Improving the Deployment Process
    • Lessons Learned
  • Case Study 2: Common Tooling Adoption in SRE
    • Background
    • Problem Statement
    • What We Decided to Do
    • Design
    • Implementation: Monitoring
    • Lessons Learned
  • Conclusion
• Conclusion
  • Onward
  • The Future Belongs to the Past
  • SRE + <Insert Other Discipline>
  • Trickles, Streams, and Floods
  • SRE Belongs to All of Us
  • On Gratitude
• A. Example SLO Document
  • Service Overview
  • SLIs and SLOs
  • Rationale
  • Error Budget
  • Clarifications and Caveats
• B. Example Error Budget Policy
  • Service Overview
  • Goals
  • Non-Goals
  • SLO Miss Policy
  • Outage Policy
  • Escalation Policy
  • Background
• C. Results of Postmortem Analysis
• Index

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