DevOps Reading List

The seminal book. Teaches the key principles through a highly readable story. If you haven’t read this, you won’t know what’s going on when people say “X is a bit of a Brent”

The foundational work on continuous integration and continuous delivery. Both Dave Farley and Jez Humble are fantastic speakers if you ever get the chance.

Great introduction to Lean principles from a wider perspective than IT – like the Phoenix Project, it reads as a novel.

Google’s alternative framing of DevOps. Some interesting ideas, and worth reading just so you understand how the term SRE actually involves a lot more than its descent into common usage might indicate. Free online also.

Beginners in DevOps think its all about learning a sometimes horrifying amount of new tools and skills. With experience, people think it is about culture and people.

But, darlings of whatever level, you better get *real* good at Bash. Inside out and back to front.

A relatively new entry to the field, and too early to get the ‘classic’ recommendation that the other books on my list have, but if you are in a siloed “DevOps Team” or have the specific problem of helping large organizations rethink the way their teams are working this book is well worth being aware of.