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Welcome to the 6.S188 Wiki (fka seoveriap.blog).

Background reading

There is no required reading for this workshop. However, we recommend the book Site Reliability Engineering (Beyer, Jones, Petoff, & Murphy) for in-depth coverage of the topics of the workshop.

In addition, the following articles provide explain why we created this course and share some experiences we've had with Site Reliability:

• Why we created 6.S188
• The Calculus of Service Availability
• The Ambiguity of Service Availability

Laboratories

This class is a lab-based class. On the first four day of classes, you will have lab activities related to the contents of class (the fifth day is reserved for demos of student projects). The instructions for the labs can be found here:

• Lab 1: Building, testing, and running Limbo
• Lab 3: TravisCI
• Lab 4: Improving secret handling

Lab 2 is an in-class exercise with no written instructions.

For instructors

We prepared a record of the steps we took to configure AWS for the class:

• How to configure AWS for the class

If you're interested in running a version of this workshop yourself, please write to us at info at tim77.net with any questions.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Adam Berry, who was a tremendous sounding board for the creation of our labs.

We would like to thank Amazon Web Services for providing support for our IAP workshop on site reliability engineering. A significant part of the workshop’s lab will use AWS services that Amazon is sponsoring.