With IT being recognized as the greatest automation technology, there is a heightened awareness and keenness by business executives in leveraging the delightful developments and advancements in the IT space to steer their organizations in the right direction and destination. With the greater penetration and participation of IT applications, platforms, and infrastructures, every small, medium, and large corporation has to have competent IT environments. The challenge now is to ensure highly resilient, elastic, available, and secure IT that has a positive vibe on business operations. Thus, the fresh concept of SRE got started and is being meticulously sustained through a host of collaborative endeavors and execution. SRE is definitely a new enterprise-wide and strategically sound initiative that is being used by various industry verticals across the globe so that they have highly reliable IT that benefits their customers.

In the next chapter, we will be learning about emerging concepts such as containerization, the microservices architecture, container management, and clustering.