The 7 best DevOps books
Author: Steve Ropa
With the relative newness of DevOps, there are not yet a ton of DevOps books. That’s why we’ve assembled a list of the 7 best DevOps books based on four criteria: the number of ratings from Amazon, the average Amazon rating, number of ratings from GoodReads and the average GoodReads rating. Both Amazon and GoodReads use a scale of 1 to 5 stars with 5 stars being the best.
We did all the legwork digging through Amazon and GoodReads to determine how many reviews each book has as well as the average rating on each site so that you can quickly find the DevOps book that is just the right fit for your needs!
DevOps Books List
1. The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
By Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford- 4.6 Average Amazon rating (1,012 ratings)
- 4.17 Average GoodReads rating (3,350 ratings)
Book Description:
Bill is an IT manager at Parts Unlimited. It’s Tuesday morning and on his drive into the office, Bill gets a call from the CEO.
The company’s new IT initiative, code named Phoenix Project, is critical to the future of Parts Unlimited, but the project is massively over budget and very late. The CEO wants Bill to report directly to him and fix the mess in ninety days or else Bill’s entire department will be outsourced.
With the help of a prospective board member and his mysterious philosophy of The Three Ways, Bill starts to see that IT work has more in common with manufacturing plant work than he ever imagined. With the clock ticking, Bill must organize work flow streamline interdepartmental communications, and effectively serve the other business functions at Parts Unlimited.
In a fast-paced and entertaining style, three luminaries of the DevOps movement deliver a story that anyone who works in IT will recognize. Readers will not only learn how to improve their own IT organizations, they’ll never view IT the same way again.
2. What is DevOps? – Infrastructure as Code
By Mike Loukides- 3.7 Average Amazon rating (57 ratings)
- 3.46 Average GoodReads rating (167 ratings)
Book Description:
Have we entered the age of NoOps infrastructures? Hardly. Old-style system administrators may be disappearing in the face of automation and cloud computing, but operations have become more significant than ever. As this O’Reilly Radar Report explains, we’re moving into a more complex arrangement known as “DevOps.”
Mike Loukides, O’Reilly’s VP of Content Strategy, provides an incisive look into this new world of operations, where IT specialists are becoming part of the development team. In an environment with thousands of servers, these specialists now write the code that maintains the infrastructure. Even applications that run in the cloud have to be resilient and fault tolerant, need to be monitored, and must adjust to huge swings in load. That was underscored by Amazon’s EBS outage last year.
From the discussions at O’Reilly’s Velocity Conference, it’s evident that many operations specialists are quickly adapting to the DevOps reality. But as a whole, the industry has just scratched the surface. This report tells you why.
By Mandi Walls- 4.2 Average Amazon rating (20 ratings)
- 3.20 Average GoodReads rating (108 ratings)
Book Description:
DevOps is as much about culture as it is about tools. When people talk about DevOps, they often emphasize configuration management systems, source code repositories, and other tools. But, as Mandi Walls explains in this Velocity report, DevOps is really about changing company culture—replacing traditional development and operations silos with collaborative teams of people from both camps. The DevOps movement has produced some efficient teams turning out better products faster. The tough part is initiating the change. This report outlines strategies for managers looking to go beyond tools to build a DevOps culture among their technical staff.
Topics include:
- Documenting reasons for changing to DevOps before you commit
- Defining meaningful and achievable goals
- Finding a technical leader to be an evangelist, tools and process expert, and shepherd
- Starting with a non-critical but substantial pilot project
- Facilitating open communication among developers, QA engineers, marketers, and other professionals
- Realigning your team’s responsibilities and incentives
- Learning when to mediate disagreements and conflicts
- Download this free report and learn how to the DevOps approach can help you create a supportive team environment built on communication, respect, and trust.
4. Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation
By Jez Humble, David Farley- 4.4 Average Amazon rating (66 ratings)
- Winner of the 2011 Jolt Excellence Award
Book Description:
Getting software released to users is often a painful, risky, and time-consuming process. This groundbreaking new book sets out the principles and technical practices that enable rapid, incremental delivery of high quality, valuable new functionality to users. Through automation of the build, deployment, and testing process, and improved collaboration between developers, testers, and operations, delivery teams can get changes released in a matter of hours—sometimes even minutes–no matter what the size of a project or the complexity of its code base.
Jez Humble and David Farley begin by presenting the foundations of a rapid, reliable, low-risk delivery process. Next, they introduce the “deployment pipeline,” an automated process for managing all changes, from check-in to release. Finally, they discuss the “ecosystem” needed to support continuous delivery, from infrastructure, data and configuration management to governance.
Read full article: blogs.versionone.com/agile_management/2015/08/11/the-7-best-devops-books
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