Steve McGhee worked as an SRE at Google for almost 10 years, then took a job outside the company. He was tasked with recreating “Google Production” and SRE practice from first principals, but with three books, modern cloud providers, and the entire Kubernetes ecosystem to help. How did he do? Learn about that which you can and can’t replace.

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Chatter of the week

Dan’s recent work has come up in episodes 136, 142, and 151, to name but a few
- Episode 39, with Dan Lorenc
Tekton CD
Sigstore
Dan’s Peter Jackson look
Sigstore Root Key Ceremony
IANA Key Signing Ceremonies and changes in the time of COVID

News of the week

GKE news:
- New Tau VMs on Google Cloud and GKE
- Committed use discounts for GKE Autopilot
- Cloud Onboard training for GKE with Kaslin Fields, on June 22
Stackrox/Red Hat State of Kubernetes Security blog post and report
etcd 3.5
SLSA: Supply chain Levels for Software Artifacts
Ensemble, by Tesera
Harbor operator 1.0
Weave GitOps Core
- Episodes 144 and 145, with Alexis Richardson
WSO2 launches Choreo and acquires Platformer
KubeCon EU 2021 transparency report
COVID vaccine required to attend fall 2021 Linux Foundation events
Opinions on Knative positioning by Ahmet Alp Balkan
- Episode 66

Links from the interview

LG Chocolate Phone and the Crazy Frog
Good SRE is the inverse of the XKCD comic on Standards
“Breaking Prod: More than once, I personally made it impossible to use google search from a phone (for a little bit). Like, for everyone on the planet.”
San Luis Obispo, California (SLO)
GIFEE, coined at CoreOS
Rebuilding SRE, from Memory
- Ben Treynor Sloss
Homer Simpson’s Car
Postcards from the future and the crystal ball
- It is against the law to have a sleeping donkey in your bathtub after 7pm
- How To Avoid Huge Ships
Prometheus
Canary releases
- Canary deployments with Istio
SLO Math, by Steve McGhee (SLOconf 2021)
The SRE I Aspire To Be, by Yaniv Aknin (SREcon 2019)
- RAID. a Redundant Array of Inexpensive/Independent Disks
Deployment Archetypes for Cloud Applications, by Brad Calder and Anna Berenberg
Steve McGhee on Twitter

SRE for Everyone Else, with Steve McGhee

Kubernetes Podcast from Google