Keep Aetherion AirOps flying¶

You are the new reliability team for a global airline platform. Over five acts and eight challenges you will pair with the Azure SRE Agent, first guiding it hands-on, then grounding and extending it, and finally trusting it to recover a live microservices estate on its own within guardrails, moving from human-approved fixes to bounded autonomy before peak departure.

Self-paced · 5 acts · 8 challenges · ~6–7 hours plus setup

Start here

Observe → Detect → Investigate → Decide → Remediate → Verify → Learn

New to the agent? Skim the optional primer Meet the SRE Agent first and learn about permissions, run modes, skills and subagents in a couple of minutes.

What you need before you start

An Azure subscription where you are Owner (or Contributor + User Access Administrator), PowerShell 7, Azure CLI, kubectl, Git and the GitHub CLI, plus a GitHub personal access token for Challenge 8. Set up the environment walks through all of it and provisions the platform with one command in about 20 minutes.

The journey¶

Act I · Foundation Orient

Onboard the SRE Agent in read-only mode and capture a healthy baseline.
Act II · Human-Guided Operations Respond

Detect and investigate an incident read-only, recover under human approval, and ground the agent in Aetherion's runbooks.
Act III · Agent Engineering Extend

Build a specialist subagent and a reusable recovery skill.
Act IV · Autonomous & Cost Automate

Let the agent remediate autonomously within bounds, then govern the cost.
Act V · Major Incident Command

Restore global check-in during a multi-service incident, then brief airline leadership.