Site reliability engineering
Site reliability engineering (SRE) is Google's practice of applying software engineering to operations, using SLOs and error budgets. PCA covers its principles under operational excellence.
All PCA Terms
Virtual Private Cloud
A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a global, software-defined private network in Google Cloud that connects resources across regions.
Shared VPC
Shared VPC is a Google Cloud feature that lets multiple projects share a common VPC network hosted in a central project.
Resource hierarchy
The resource hierarchy is the Google Cloud structure of organization, folders, and projects to which policies and permissions are applied.
Identity and Access Management
Identity and Access Management (IAM) is the Google Cloud service that controls who can do what on which resources through roles bound to identities.
Organization policy
An organization policy is a configurable constraint applied across the resource hierarchy to centrally enforce governance rules.
Compute Engine
Compute Engine is Google Cloud's infrastructure-as-a-service offering that provides configurable virtual machines with options such as managed instance groups.
Google Kubernetes Engine
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is Google Cloud's managed Kubernetes service for running containerized workloads.
Cloud Run
Cloud Run is a serverless platform that runs containers and scales automatically based on demand.
Cloud Load Balancing
Cloud Load Balancing is Google Cloud's managed, scalable service for distributing traffic across backends, including global load balancing.
Cloud Spanner
Cloud Spanner is Google Cloud's globally distributed, strongly consistent relational database that scales horizontally.
Cloud SQL
Cloud SQL is Google Cloud's managed relational database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server.
Cloud Key Management Service
Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS) is the Google Cloud service for creating and managing cryptographic keys, including customer-managed encryption keys.
Cloud Observability
Google Cloud Observability (formerly Operations Suite) is the set of monitoring, logging, and tracing tools for Google Cloud.
Site reliability engineering
Site reliability engineering (SRE) is Google's practice of applying software engineering to operations, using SLOs and error budgets.