Service level objective
A service level objective (SLO) is a target value for a service level indicator that defines the reliability a service aims to meet. PCDE covers defining and managing SLOs and SLIs.
All PCDE Terms
Site reliability engineering
Site reliability engineering (SRE) is Google's discipline that applies software-engineering practices to operations to run reliable services at scale.
Service level objective
A service level objective (SLO) is a target value for a service level indicator that defines the reliability a service aims to meet.
Service level indicator
A service level indicator (SLI) is a quantitative measure of some aspect of a service's level, such as latency or availability.
Error budget
An error budget is the acceptable amount of unreliability a service can incur before action is required, derived from its SLO.
Cloud Build
Cloud Build is Google Cloud's managed service for running continuous-integration and continuous-delivery builds.
Cloud Deploy
Cloud Deploy is a managed continuous-delivery service that automates deployments to Google Kubernetes Engine and other runtimes with promotion between environments.
Artifact Registry
Artifact Registry is Google Cloud's service for storing and managing build artifacts and container images.
Binary Authorization
Binary Authorization is a Google Cloud service that enforces deploy-time policies requiring images to be signed and attested.
Terraform
Terraform is an infrastructure-as-code tool, supported on Google Cloud, for declaratively provisioning and managing resources.
Resource hierarchy
The resource hierarchy is the Google Cloud structure of organization, folders, and projects to which policies are applied.
Cloud Monitoring
Cloud Monitoring is Google Cloud's service for collecting metrics, building dashboards, and alerting on service health.
Cloud Logging
Cloud Logging is Google Cloud's managed service for storing, searching, and analyzing log data, with options for filtering, sampling, and exclusions to manage cost.
Cloud Trace
Cloud Trace is a distributed-tracing system that collects latency data from applications to find performance bottlenecks.
Service account
A service account is a special Google Cloud identity used by workloads and automation rather than people.