This repository demonstrates practical SRE and DevOps skills including containerization, monitoring, incident response, CI/CD automation, scalability planning, cloud architecture, and infrastructure documentation.

Repository Structure

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├── README.md
│
├── q1-deploy-monitor/
│   ├── Dockerfile
│   ├── app.py
│   ├── requirements.txt
│   ├── health-check.sh
│   ├── dashboard.html
│   ├── update_monitor.py
│   └── monitoring-data.json
│
├── q2-postmortem/
│   └── postmortem-report.md
│
├── q3-cicd/
│   ├── workflow.yml
│   └── README.md
│
├── q4-scalability/
│   ├── architecture-diagram.png
│   └── calculations.md
│
├── q5-mithal-monitor/
│   ├── monitor.py
│   ├── dashboard.html
│   ├── monitoring-data.json
│   └── requirements.txt
│
├── common-mortakaz/
│   ├── integration-1.md
│   └── integration-2.md
│
└── common-qabilah/
    └── qabilah-profile.txt

Project Overview

The repository contains implementations for the following SRE topics:

Question	Topic	Status
Q1	Container Deployment & Monitoring	✅
Q2	Incident Postmortem & Auto Scaling	✅
Q3	CI/CD Pipeline	✅
Q4	Scalability & Load Balancing	✅
Q5	Monitoring Dashboard	✅
Bonus A	Mortakaz Integration Proposals	✅
Bonus B	Qabilah Profile	✅

Technologies Used

Python
Flask
Docker
GitHub Actions
HTML
CSS
JavaScript
Chart.js
Bash
JSON
Git
Ghaymah Platform
mithal.space

Question 1 — Deploy & Monitor an API

Implemented:

Dockerized Python API
/health endpoint
Monitoring script
Simple monitoring dashboard
Response time tracking
Request counting

Features

Docker container
Health endpoint
Automatic health checks
Live dashboard
JSON-based monitoring storage

Question 2 — Incident Postmortem

Created a complete production-style postmortem including:

Executive Summary
Timeline
Root Cause Analysis
Corrective Actions
Preventive Actions
Auto-scaling Policy
Monitoring Strategy
Lessons Learned

Question 3 — CI/CD Pipeline

Implemented a GitHub Actions workflow that includes:

Docker image build
Push to Ghaymah Container Registry
Staging deployment
Manual approval before production
Production deployment
Docker layer caching

Pipeline Flow

Push
   │
   ▼
Build Docker Image
   │
   ▼
Push Image
   │
   ▼
Deploy to Staging
   │
   ▼
Manual Approval
   │
   ▼
Deploy to Production

Question 4 — Scalability Design

Designed an architecture capable of handling:

15,000 requests/second

Included:

High-level architecture
Container sizing calculations
Auto Scaling strategy
Cold-start optimization
Load balancing
Block Storage usage

Result:

39 application containers

Question 5 — Monitoring Dashboard

Implemented a monitoring solution for mithal.space.

Collected metrics include:

HTTP Latency
Uptime
HTTP Status
DNS Resolution Time
SSL Certificate Status
SSL Expiration
Search Response Time

Dashboard Features

24-hour uptime
Response time graph
SSL health
Recent checks table
Live status indicator

Mortakaz Integration

Prepared two integration proposals demonstrating how products from Mortakaz can integrate with the Ghaymah ecosystem.

Included:

Product overview
Integration architecture
Business value
Technical challenges
Architecture diagrams

Qabilah

Qabilah profile:

Profile

https://qabilah.com/profile/noransalm/posts

The profile link is also included in:

common-qabilah/qabilah-profile.txt

Running the Project

Q1

cd q1-deploy-monitor

docker build -t api .

docker run -p 5000:5000 api

Monitoring Script

bash health-check.sh

python monitor.py

Dashboard

Open:

dashboard.html

or serve locally:

python -m http.server 8000

Best Practices Applied

Dockerized applications
Health endpoints
Automated monitoring
Infrastructure documentation
Production-style incident analysis
GitHub Actions CI/CD
Manual production approval
Auto Scaling recommendations
Persistent monitoring data
Separation of environments
Lightweight container design
Cloud-native architecture

References

Docker Documentation
GitHub Actions Documentation
Flask Documentation
Chart.js Documentation
Ghaymah Platform Documentation
mithal.space

Author

Noran Salm

Computer and Systems Engineering Student

Qabilah Profile

https://qabilah.com/profile/noransalm/posts