Books to Read
- The Phoenix Project – one of the original books to delve into DevOps culture, explained through the story of a fictional company on the brink of failure. Honestly, this book changed my life. I’ve read it three times already.
- The DevOps Handbook – a practical “sequel” to The Phoenix Project.
- Google’s Site Reliability Engineering – Google engineers explain how they build, deploy, monitor, and maintain their systems.
- The Site Reliability Workbook – The practical companion to the Google’s Site Reliability Engineering Book
- The Unicorn Project – the “sequel” to The Phoenix Project. Gives a look at the developer side of things.
- DevOps for Dummies – don’t let the name fool you.
What Should I Learn?
- Emily Wood’s essay – why infrastructure as code is so important into today’s world.
- 2019 DevOps Roadmap – one developer’s ideas for which skills are needed in the DevOps world. This roadmap is controversial, as it may be too use-case specific, but serves as a good starting point for what tools are currently in use by companies.
- Roadmap.sh – Step by step guide for DevOps or any other Operations Role