How to Do SRE When You Have No SRE

This talk gives engineering organizations without dedicated SRE staff practical, step-by-step advice for improving reliability with limited time and resources. It covers areas including infrastructure, security, capacity, third parties, certificates, releases, and operational rules.

Syllabus

Intro
Why are you here
TLDR
How is this different
Cya
Review
Capacity Requirements
Security
Calendar
Infrastructure
Third Parties
DomainsSSL Certs
Releases and Updates
What to do now
Rules
Publish Your Rules
Rural Examples
No Downside
No Blame
No Human Error
Its okay to not be okay
Code changes
Network issues
Keep going
Questions