Ghaymah SRE Technical Assessment
This repository contains my submission for the Ghaymah Internship Program – SRE Technical Assessment.
The project demonstrates deployment, monitoring, incident analysis, CI/CD automation, scalability planning, and monitoring dashboard implementation using Ghaymah Cloud Platform.
Repository Structure
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├── q1-deploy-monitor/
│ ├── Dockerfile
│ ├── health-check.sh
│ ├── dashboard.html
│ └── README.md
│
├── q2-postmortem/
│ ├── postmortem-report.md
│ └── README.md
│
├── q3-cicd/
│ ├── workflow.yml
│ └── README.md
│
├── q4-scalability/
│ ├── architecture.png
│ ├── calculations.md
│ └── README.md
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├── q5-mithal-monitor/
│ ├── collector.py
│ ├── dashboard.html
│ ├── Dockerfile
│ ├── requirements.txt
│ └── README.md
│
├── common-mortakaz/
├── common-qabilah/
└── README.md
Task 1 — Deploy & Monitor
Objective
Deploy a containerized web application on Ghaymah Cloud and implement a basic monitoring dashboard.
Deliverables
- Dockerized application
- Health check endpoint
- Monitoring dashboard
- Successful deployment on Ghaymah
Task 2 — Incident Postmortem
Objective
Analyze a production outage caused by repeated OOMKilled events.
Deliverables
- Executive summary
- Timeline
- Root cause analysis
- Corrective actions
- Preventive recommendations
- Auto-scaling proposal
Task 3 — CI/CD Pipeline
Objective
Create a complete deployment pipeline using GitHub Actions and Ghaymah CLI.
Features
- Docker image build
- Application validation
- Deploy to Staging
- Manual Approval
- Deploy to Production
- Health checks
Task 4 — Scalability Design
Objective
Design infrastructure capable of serving 15,000 Requests/sec.
Includes
- Architecture diagram
- Capacity calculations
- Horizontal scaling strategy
- Cold-start optimization
- Block Storage usage
- Auto-scaling recommendations
Task 5 — Mithal Monitoring Dashboard
Objective
Build a monitoring solution for https://mithal.space
Metrics Collected
- HTTP Latency
- Uptime
- DNS Resolution Time
- SSL Certificate Status
- Search Response Time
Dashboard Features
- 24-hour uptime percentage
- Latency chart
- SSL expiration status
- Latest monitoring checks
- Automatic refresh
Technologies Used
- Python
- Docker
- GitHub Actions
- Ghaymah CLI
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- Chart.js
Deployment
Applications were deployed using the official Ghaymah CLI.
General deployment workflow:
gy auth login
gy resource app init --project-id <PROJECT_ID>
gy resource app launch
Notes
- Each task is self-contained.
- Every task includes its own documentation.
- The implementation follows the official Ghaymah documentation whenever applicable.
Author
Moamen Lotfy
SRE Track Candidate
Ghaymah Internship Program
Qabilah Profile
As required by the technical assessment, I created a Qabilah account and followed the official Ghaymah account.
Profile Link:
https://qabilah.com/profile/momendevops/professional-profile