Ask HN: Which books describe modern devops?

by xstartup on 2/12/2018, 8:40 AM with 22 comments
  • by yctrl on 2/12/2018, 10:55 AM

    Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems https://g.co/kgs/9QF2Kv

    The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations https://g.co/kgs/1cffqN

    The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit https://g.co/kgs/ULqmRc

    DevOps: A Software Architect's Perspective https://g.co/kgs/trJVDi

    Effective DevOps: Building a Culture of Collaboration, Affinity, and Tooling at Scale https://g.co/kgs/LTMEay

  • by rpwilcox on 2/12/2018, 2:44 PM

    If by "modern devops" you mean "they say it's appropriate in a Cloud Native environment" here's some I like or are on my reading list:

      * Seeking SRE

  * Database Reliability Engineering: Designing and Operating Resilient Database Systems

  * The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality

  * Infrastructure as Code: Managing Servers in the Cloud

  * Cloud Native Infrastructure

  * the Scuba Paper from Facebook Research

  * Kubernetes in Action

  * Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

  * Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment
 
  * Cloud Native: Designing Change-tolerant Software

  * Understanding The Linux Memory Manager <-- kind of old (ie references the coming 64bit memory transitions), but super good

  * Spring Microservices in Action <--- read even if you're not a Java or Spring head, asks questions like, "maybe you should think about service discovery, routing, tracing, etc"

  • by 22goodman on 2/12/2018, 11:48 AM

    The most fundamental DevOps book -> The Phoenix Project: https://goo.gl/84ELVc

  • by dsr_ on 2/12/2018, 11:32 AM

    The Practice of System and Network Administration, Tom Limoncelli and Christine Hogan.

    The Practice of Cloud System Administration: Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems, Volume 2 -- by the above plus Strata Chalup.

    You need both.

  • by henrik_w on 2/12/2018, 10:41 AM

    Probably not exactly what you are asking, but "Site Reliability Engineering" from Google is available to read on-line:

    https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html

  • by indescions_2018 on 2/12/2018, 2:23 PM

    Like the SRE book from Google. Its also worth checking out how companies such as Netflix put reliability into practice.

    Spinnaker

    https://www.spinnaker.io/

    Chaos Monkey

    https://github.com/Netflix/chaosmonkey

    Principles of Chaos Engineering

    http://principlesofchaos.org/

  • by thraxil on 2/12/2018, 2:12 PM

    The other recommendations here are pretty good. I'd add "Infrastructure as Code" as well.

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  • by ogbuagu on 2/14/2018, 4:41 PM

    Chinuoachebe

  • by dozzie on 2/12/2018, 8:56 AM

    How do you define "modern devops"?

  • by ogbuagu on 2/14/2018, 4:45 PM

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  • by vgy7ujm on 2/12/2018, 11:27 AM

    Modern devops as in what used to be sysadmin..