Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework skill for the Reliability pillar

Overview

The Reliability pillar of the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework provides principles and recommendations to help you design, deploy, and manage reliable, resilient, and highly available workloads in Google Cloud. A reliable system consistently performs its intended functions under defined conditions, is resilient to failures, and recovers gracefully from disruptions, thereby minimizing downtime, enhancing user experience, and ensuring data integrity.

Core principles

The recommendations in the reliability pillar of the Well-Architected Framework are aligned with the following core principles:

• Define reliability based on user-experience goals: Measurement of reliability should reflect the actual experience of the system's users rather than merely relying on infrastructure metrics. Focus on outcomes that matter