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My Favorite Books for DevOps Engineering

javinpaul on May 22, 2023

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Noam Guy

IMHO, the phoenix project should be the first on the list.

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javinpaul

Yeah, its a nice book and most enjoyable as well

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matt short

true and the reason is, you don't realise you need a fresh take on your job in devops until you read the book. read this book first.

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OssiDev

Only book on the list imo that can be enjoyable as an audio book.

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Levi Schouten

Thank you for this great article, I've been eager to learn more about dev ops and this greatly helps.

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Oscar Nogueira Neto • Edited

Great article!

I agree that "The Phoenix Project" should be #1.

And I would also add the SRE books from Google. There has a lot to learn there too!

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javinpaul

SRE Books from Google? which one is that? would you mind to share please.

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Oscar Nogueira Neto

Sorry I forgot to add the references.

You can find Google's SRE books here!

Site Reliability Engineering and The Site Reliability Workbook are the MUST read.

The best part is that you can read them online for free!

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OssiDev

Great books. Read 3/5 of these.

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Ant(on) Weiss

Some great suggestions. Even though I personally found The Phoenix Project quite unreadable.
If you want to understand the first principles - definitely also add Continuous Delivery by Humble and Farley to the list.
And I also think Senge's The 5th Discipline is a must read to understand Systems Thinking which lies at the heart of DevOps.

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Dylan Zhang • Edited

Can you recommend some open-source dev ops platforms?
Thanks

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MichaelBow

Wow really all the google books here