Community · real challenges · mentorship
The hands-on community for people who want to live real SRE and DevOps .
SRE Labs is where you leave tutorials behind and start practicing in scenarios close to how real teams work. Active community, meaningful challenges, and a clear path to build portfolio and grow in your career.
Want to see how it works in practice? Open Challenge 01 – our first challenge, already finished and fully public, ready to be replicated.
What is SRE Labs?
SRE Labs is a hands-on community for SRE and DevOps . A place where engineers starting out, switching careers, or looking to deepen their craft meet to learn for real, with real-world challenges and people who have walked this path for over 12 years.
- An open community for people getting started, switching careers, or simply looking for peers who raise the bar.
- Practical challenges that simulate real SRE, DevOps, Cloud, and Kubernetes problems.
- A natural path: from a free community to public challenges and, if it fits, a guided challenge with mentorship.
- Learning by doing: you ship, show, discuss, and evolve – you do not just watch.
Why join
Most courses stop at videos and slides . Here it is the opposite: you join an active group, pick a challenge, and practice with people next to you.
Practice that counts
Challenges are designed to pull you out of your comfort zone and mimic the reality of a real SRE or DevOps team: decisions, trade-offs, and real deliverables.
People that walk with you
An active community that helps you unblock problems in hours, shares mistakes, and celebrates wins. You stop learning alone in front of a screen.
Real portfolio
Every challenge ends in a public repository with your name on it, ready to show in interviews. Instead of a certificate, you leave with work.
Level-based growth
Start with the community and the public challenge. When you want another level, join a guided challenge (Challenge 02 is next) with mentorship and review of your own work.
You can start today
You do not need to wait: the community is already active and there are public challenges open. New challenges are announced to the community first.
Now
Open community
An active group for questions, feedback, and peer support. The fastest way to start practicing with other people.
Finished · public
Challenge 01
The first SRE Labs challenge, already completed by the community. The repository, brief, and full history remain public and can be replicated at your own pace – a real sample of what SRE Labs delivers.
Coming next
Challenge 02
The next challenge is in the oven. Shorter than Challenge 01 (8 weeks), with the same quality bar: serious brief, real SRE scope, and a public repo you can defend in interviews.
What the journey looks like
No matter if you are starting out or switching careers: the path is simple and designed for you to move at your own pace, with people by your side.
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Join the community
Click "Join the community" at the top – the group is open and free. Introduce yourself, share your context, and see what others are building.
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Pick a challenge
Replicate a public challenge, like Challenge 01 (already finished, fully documented), at your own pace. New challenges arrive with different topics and levels.
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Ship it and show it
Publish what you build, share in the group, ask for feedback. Your work becomes portfolio and interview material.
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Level up when you want
When you want to go deeper, there are two paths: 1:1 mentorship with Maycon (already live, 30-day challenge) or the Challenge 02 waitlist – a shorter guided challenge released first to people in the queue.
Community
Open and free group. The entry point to SRE Labs: a place to ask questions, show what you are building, and stay close to new challenges.
Now
WhatsApp group
Quick questions, technical exchanges, peer support, and key announcements.
Soon
Discord
The invite link is in the WhatsApp group description. Topic and level channels as the community grows.
Updates
New challenges
Challenge 02 and new content will be announced inside the group first.
Want to be notified when Challenge 02 opens? Join the waitlist
Challenge 02 · next challenge
Challenge 01 was an 8-week marathon, fully public and replicable. Challenge 02 follows the same quality bar – real SRE scope, serious brief, public repo – but in a shorter format designed to fit your routine without turning into an endless project. On the waitlist? You hear from us first when the brief drops.
- Compact format: shorter than the 8 weeks of Challenge 01, without losing depth.
- Focused on a critical slice of day-to-day SRE work – decisions, trade-offs, and delivery.
- Same rigor as 01: a public repository under your name, ready to defend in interviews.
- Released first to people on the waitlist and in the community – before the general public.
No commitment: you only join the queue to be notified when Challenge 02 opens.
Waitlist · Challenge 02
Notify me when Challenge 02 opens
Tell us a bit about your moment so we know who is on the queue. You only join the list – no charge, no spam. When the Challenge 02 brief drops, you get everything you need to start before the general public.
Where we are going
We start with community and public challenges. From there we grow into new challenges, live classes, and later self-service labs.
Today · Community + Challenge 01 + 1:1 mentorship
Active group, Challenge 01 public and replicable, and Mentoria Prática em SRE – 1:1 with Maycon – for people who want to accelerate results.
Next · Challenge 02
A new guided challenge – shorter than 01, same quality bar – released first to the community and waitlist.
Later · Live classes and labs platform
Small group live classes with a weekly cadence and, longer term, self-service labs to practice specific scenarios at your own pace.
Individual track
1:1 mentorship with Maycon Ritzmann
If you want an individual shortcut, there is Mentoria Prática em SRE: a 30-day guided challenge with four 1:1 sessions of 1 hour (live with Maycon) and technical support between sessions. Built for people migrating into SRE, leveling up, or walking into interviews with a real case to show.
- 30-day practical challenge, tailored to your career moment.
- Four 1:1 sessions of 1 hour each, live on video call with the mentor.
- Technical follow-up between sessions – not only during calls.
- Focus on shipping a case that holds up in interviews.
- A direct complement to the SRE Labs community and challenges.
Opens mentoria.ritzmann.io in a new tab.
Shall we practice together?
The best step is the first one: join the community and see what the group is building. If you want an individual shortcut, 1:1 mentorship with Maycon is open; if you prefer exploring on your own, replicate Challenge 01 (already finished and fully public).