The SRE Manifesto

Short version

An open-source site reliability engineer manifesto of the SREs, by the SREs, for the SREs.

• Link to The SRE Manifesto
• Link to The SRE Practices

TL;DR version

Intro

In 2003, Google published the book titled Site Reliability Engineering unveiling the operational model behind its notorious success. Although it's a well-written work, it didn't intend to prescribe the primary responsibilities of a site reliability engineer (SRE) or their core skills.

The SRE Manifesto is a timid project to convey the SRE's primary responsibilities and core skills in a single document, thus giving shape to this profession outside Google and trying to universalize the role.

Background

We started this work with the Becoming a Rockstar SRE book as its appendix; however, site reliability engineering is too big to fit into a single book.

Who should read this document?

Besides site reliability engineers, we recommend the following audience for this manifesto:

• DevOps Engineers
• Platform Engineers
• Cloud Engineers
• Performance Engineers
• Software Engineers
• Engineering managers

And all managerial roles that are interested in understanding what a SRE does.

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