Further Reading & Resources

Books

BookAuthorCovers
The Phoenix ProjectGene KimDevOps culture, IT operations (novel format)
Site Reliability EngineeringGoogle (free online)SRE practices, monitoring, incident response
Infrastructure as CodeKief MorrisIaC principles, patterns, practices
Terraform: Up & RunningYevgeniy BrikmanPractical Terraform (updated regularly)
Docker Deep DiveNigel PoultonDocker from basics to production
Kubernetes in ActionMarko LukšaK8s concepts and hands-on
Web Scalability for Startup EngineersArtur EjsmontScaling web apps pragmatically
Designing Data-Intensive ApplicationsMartin KleppmannDistributed systems, databases, architecture

Official Documentation

Free Courses & Tutorials

Tools Reference

CategoryTools
Web ServersNginx, Caddy, Apache, Traefik
ContainersDocker, Podman, containerd
OrchestrationKubernetes, Docker Swarm, Nomad
CI/CDGitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI, ArgoCD
IaCTerraform, Ansible, Pulumi, CloudFormation
MonitoringPrometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic
LoggingLoki, ELK Stack, Fluentd, Vector
SecretsVault, AWS Secrets Manager, SOPS, Doppler
DNS/CDNCloudflare, Route 53, Fastly
SSLLet's Encrypt, Certbot, cert-manager (K8s)

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