DevOpsiSRE

DevOpsiSRE is an integrated approach that combines DevOps practices with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to improve software delivery velocity while increasing system reliability. It treats reliability as a product with explicit goals, often measured using service level indicators (SLIs) and governed by error budgets that balance pace with stability.

The term is not an official standard but has emerged in organizations seeking to merge DevOps culture with the disciplined reliability practices of SRE. It reflects a trend toward cross-functional teams that own both feature development and the reliability outcomes of the systems they build and operate.

Core concepts include defining SLOs and SLIs, using error budgets to guide decision-making between releasing new features and hardening reliability, and conducting blameless postmortems. Toil reduction, platform engineering, observability, and automated testing and deployment are also central. The goal is to embed reliability into development workflows rather than treating it as an afterthought.

Roles and responsibilities in a DevOpsiSRE framework typically span feature development, infrastructure maintenance, incident response, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and platform reliability engineering. Teams emphasize collaboration across development, operations, and product sides to ensure both user-facing improvements and robust service behavior.

Practices and tools commonly associated with DevOpsiSRE include CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, containerization and orchestration (such as Kubernetes), monitoring and tracing stacks, runbooks, and automated remediation. Widely used tooling spans Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Terraform, Ansible, and incident management platforms.

Adoption considerations include clear ownership, governance, and metrics that align with business goals. Potential drawbacks involve role ambiguity or overemphasizing reliability at the expense of rapid feature delivery if not carefully managed.