In order to stay relevant in the ever-changing world of Cloud and DevOps, you need to acquire new knowledge. Therefore, you should read as much as you can. This article is a compilation of the best books that can help you on your learning journey. Most importantly, all of the books on this list are available for free.
If you are a leader, if you want to be one, you have to read. You cannot grow in your leadership without learning from others and that requires reading.
Margaret Fuller
The description: Kubernetes radically changes the way applications are built and deployed in the cloud. Since its introduction in 2014, this container orchestrator has become one of the largest and most popular open source projects in the world. The updated edition of this how-to book shows developers and operations staff how Kubernetes and container technology can help them achieve new levels of speed, agility, reliability, and efficiency.
Author: Brendon Burns, Joe Beda, Kelsey Hightower
Free download: Kubernetes Up & Running — Dive into the Future of Infrastructure

The description: In Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, you’ll learn how to use Python to write programs that do in minutes what would take you hours to do by hand — no prior programming experience required. Once you’ve mastered the basics of programming, you’ll create Python programs that effortlessly perform useful and impressive feats of automation.
Author: Al Sweigart
Read online: Automate Boring Stuff with Python – Practical Programming for Beginners

The description: Distributed systems allow different areas of a business to create specific applications to meet their needs and drive insight and innovation. While great for the business, this new normal can lead to development inefficiencies when the same systems are reimplemented multiple times. This free e-book provides generic, repeatable models and reusable components to make developing reliable systems easier and more efficient, so you can free up your time to focus on basic development of your application.
Author: Brendan Burns
Free download: Distributed Systems Design — Models and Paradigms for Scalable and Reliable Services

The description: If you build, manage, operate, or configure systems running in the cloud, you’re a cloud engineer, even if you work as a system administrator, software developer, data scientist, or site reliability engineer. With this book, professionals from all over the world provide valuable insight into the current role of cloud engineering.
Author: Emily Freeman and Nathan Harvey
Free download: 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know: The Collective Wisdom of Experts

The description: This Linux® Notes for Professionals book is compiled from Stack Overflow documentation, the content is written by the lovely folks at Stack Overflow. The content of the text is published under Creative Commons BY-SA, see the credits at the end of this book who contributed to the different chapters.
Free download: Linux — Notes for Professionals

The description: While many organizations have an existing Kubernetes footprint, far fewer are using Kubernetes in production, and even fewer are operating at scale. Building an application platform on Kubernetes requires more engineering effort from a platform perspective, but takes advantage of the extensibility of Kubernetes, allowing you to build something that meets the needs of developers, infrastructure teams and the business.
Author: Josh Rosso, Rich Lander, Alexander Brand, John Harris
Free download: Kubernetes Production — Building High-Performance Application Platforms

The description: This Git Notes for Professionals book is compiled from Stack Overflow
Documentation, content is written by the lovely folks at Stack Overflow.
Text content is published under Creative Commons BY-SA, see credits at the end
of this book who have contributed to the various chapters.
Free download: Git — Notes for Professionals
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Originally posted Apr 23, 2022 at 5:54:19 PM (updated Apr 23, 2022)