Ask an OpenShift Admin (E70) | SRE is not sysadmin

Architecting, deploying, and supporting infrastructure - and the applications deployed on top - are jobs commonly associated with system administrators for the last 40+ years. As applications have become more complex and scalable, and the amount of work needed to maintain and support the infrastructure and platforms those applications are built on has increased, we've had to evolve skillsets to continue to be effective. In the last decade or so, the merging of application/developer and administrator/operations roles has often been referred to as DevOps, where we - the administrators - often become a part of the AppDev teams.

However, even more recently a new skillset, and moniker, has become popular: Site Reliability Engineering, or SRE. This role is a full merging of the two skill sets, but rather than bringing operations knowledge and skills to AppDev teams, SRE brings a software engineering approach to operations.

Today's episode we are joined by Hilliary Lipsig, SRE and co-host of the GitOps Guide to the Galaxy, to discuss the different approaches and skills for SRE compared to traditional administrators. We'll be diving into how that applies to OpenShift and especially how the SRE role applies to managing a large number of OpenShift clusters with a relatively small number of personnel.

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Do you have questions? We want to answer them! Every Wednesday at 11am ET, hosts Andrew Sullivan and Jonathan Rickard sit down to answer your questions about Red Hat OpenShift.

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Red Hat OpenShift is an open source container application platform based on the Kubernetes container orchestrator for enterprise application development and deployment.

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00:00:00 Intro
00:00:56 Guest Hilliary Lipsig, Principal SRE, Co-host Git-Ops Guide to the Galaxy
00:07:50 Top of mind topics, ETCD bug fix
00:11:25 General availability of OpenShift Web Terminal Operator 1.5
00:16:52 Types of Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) at Red Hat
00:22:10 Operator capability levels and automation in OpenShift Operator Hub
00:26:43 What’s the difference between DevOps vs SRE?
00:38:06 How do SREs help improve disaster recovery?
00:48:06 Discussion + Q&A
01:11:28 Closing + Announcements
01:17:11 Outro