Working together SRE & Platform Engineering

Working together: SRE &
Platform Engineering
Marcus Vechiato
25/05/2023

Agenda
● SRE and Platform Engineering - Main Goals and Objectives
● Summary key Concepts
○ What is SRE?
○ What is Platform Engineering?
● Food for thought
○ SRE Practice
○ Platform Engineering
● Beneﬁts of Platform Engineering
● How SREs can beneﬁt from Platform Engineering
● Platform Engineering IDP Approach
● Q&A

SRE and Platform Engineering - Main Goals and Objectives
Platform Engineering focuses on creating
self-service provisioning, standardized
environments, and eﬃcient deployment
pipelines
SRE focuses on automating tasks,
streamlining incident response, and
reducing toil
Platform Engineering focuses on creating
a scalable, stable and resilient platform
infrastructure.
SRE provides insights into
performance bottlenecks and helps
optimize system scalability
Scalability
and
Reliability
Eﬃciency
SRE
Focus on user-facing
experience
Platform Engineering
Focus on developer
experience
User
Experience
SRE and Platform Engineering work together to ensure systems can scale effectively to meet
growing demands while aim to ensure reliability and availability.

What is SRE?
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"SRE is what
happens when you
ask a software
engineer to design
an operations
team."
Google SRE Book
"SRE is what you
get when you
treat operations
as if it’s a
software
problem…"
Google

Why SRE?
SRE serves as a practical
embodiment of DevOps,
implementing principles and
practices to ensure reliability,
scalability and eﬃciency in
systems ops
DevOps is a
philosophy that
uniﬁes Developers
and Operations

What is SRE? :: Key Principles
SRE principles contribute
to the reliability and
performance of software
systems by emphasizing
proactive monitoring,
incident response, error
budget management,
and continuous
improvement to ensure
high availability and
optimized performance.
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Incident
Response
Monitoring
Error
Budget
SLOs
Postmortems
Key Principles

SRE-to-developer
ratio
Toil
Food for thought - SRE Practice
How mature is
your SRE
practice?
What SRE can
do better?
Is SRE being
successful in your
organization?
Cloud
Costs
Tool Creep SRE identity
centricity

Food for thought - SRE Identity Centricity
Product
Centric
Reliability
User
Experience
Centric
Incident
Centric
SRE
Identity

What is Platform Engineering?
Standardization Self-service Automation
"Platform engineering is the discipline of
building and operating self-service internal
developer platforms (IDPs) for software
delivery and life cycle management" Gartner

Food for thought - Platform Engineering
Things to consider before adopting Platform Engineering:
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Beneﬁts of Platform Engineering
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Supports CI/CD
practices
05 ● Provides infrastructure, tools, and pipelines for automated build, test,
and deployment processes
Infrastructure
as Code (IaC)
04 ● Embraces Infrastructure as Code principles
Self-Service
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Automation
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● Automates repetitive tasks and processes
● Saves time, reduces errors, and accelerates software delivery
● Examples: provisioning environments, building and testing code, deploying
applications
● Enables teams to provision and manage their own resources and services
● Reduces dependencies and minimizes bottlenecks in development and
deployment processes
● Establishes standardized practices, tools, and frameworks
● Reduces complexity and streamlines processes
● Ensures consistency and improves eﬃciency across the organization
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How SREs can beneﬁt from Platform Engineering
● Implementing an IDP internaldeveloperplatform.org:
○ Improve Developer experience and productivity
■ Faster onboarding of new team members
■ Reduce developers cognitive load
■ Reduce time spent provisioning and maintaining new systems while:
● Guardrails best practices/standards
● Address regulatory requirements
● Reduces the burden of cumbersome internal processes "bureaucracy"
○ Reduces toil
○ Improves team eﬃciency
○ Free up SRE time to work on noble matters

Platform Engineering IDP Approach
● Establish a Platform Team to work on the IDP
● IDP approach:
○ CLI (Command line interface) + Crossplane (crossplane.io)
■ Code Repository(GitHub):
● Initial repository creation based on predeﬁned templates with best practices in
place as observability, hardening, etc…
● CI/CD creation and deploy in multiple environments as STG/Prod/etc
● Repository of templates open to the Engineering team to collaborate
○ Backstage (backstage.io) - Developer Portal
■ Service Catalog
■ Self-service Documentation
■ Code Visibility / System dependencies
■ Open source plugins

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