Books

Venturing out into the vast world of AWS can be a daunting and sometimes really scary experience. It was for me. The AWS Cloud Walkabout is my version of the journey.

This Primer is for everyone who is interested in quality in software development, and that should be everyone; because delivering poor quality software at speed is a certified recipe for failure.

In this hands-on book, you will learn how to manage logs using the awesome open-source Graylog and create a scalable, high-throughput and high-available log processing architecture deploying Elasticsearch, MongoDB and Graylog clusters on top of Docker/Vagrant. Also, we will use Fluentd high availability setup based on forwarders and aggregators.

Learn how to create a real-world Continuous Delivery pipeline for a Spring Boot app by setting up a Kubernetes cluster and running Jenkins Pipelines in a scalable fashion (dynamically allocating Jenkins slaves as Kubernetes pods) to test, build, release and deploy a new version to testing, staging and production environments using Canary Release

Finally a free, open source book designed to teach Unix to anybody! Unix is over 40 years old yet it's still used to power your phone, the internet, and the latest scientific research. If you know how to use a mouse and keyboard then this book can provide you with the foundation you need to start coding - no previous experience expected!

This 2025 edition of the best-selling Kubernetes book is fully updated for the latest versions of Kubernetes and the latest industry trends. You won't find a better and more up-to-date book on Kubernetes. Hand-crafted over the past 8 years by best-selling author Nigel Poulton. This book is a masterpiece.

Learn everything there is to know about building and maintaining your own home or workplace virtual lab environment on the most popular hypervisors today!

Learn all about Pester, the testing framework for PowerShell.

DevOps Katas: Hands-On DevOps is about three of the most important DevOps tools: Docker, Git, and Jenkins. You'll learn by doing with each set of exercises.

Discover DC/OS and container orchestration with this high level guide and key concept explanation from Spicule.co.uk. Containers are the hot thing in the Sysops and Devops world currently, but managing them can be time consuming, DC/OS will allow you to do just that quickly and easily.

A Practical Guide to Testing in DevOps offers direction and advice to anyone involved in testing in a DevOps environment. You can read the reviews or check out the Reader Testimonials below.

Learn to scale your data science projects from comfort of your development laptop to production scale on the Google and Amazon Clouds. Learn Python for Data Science. Setup Google Cloud Datastore, Firebase, and DynamoDB. Use Neo4j and Open Refine in your workflow.

Strong build & release engineering capabilities are key to rapid and reliable delivery of modern software systems. Learn how software releasability means not only being able to deploy faster, but also being able to quickly recover from disaster and adapt to changing technical and business challenges.

Over thirty subject matter experts have teamed up to bring you the ultimate collection of PowerShell topics that's designed to be like a conference in a book. This book not only delivers top-notch content that rivals any book on the market, but all royalties are donated to the OnRamp scholarship program which bootstraps others into the industry.