Books

This 2026 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.

Master AWS IoT Core with this hands-on, comprehensive guide. Learn how to securely connect, manage, and scale your IoT device fleets using MQTT, AWS IoT Greengrass, bulk enrollments, and OTA updates. From edge hardware setups to cloud analytics and Zero Trust security, build enterprise-grade architectures today.

Ansible is a simple, but powerful, server and configuration management tool. Learn to use Ansible effectively, whether you manage one server—or thousands.

Linux is one of the best decisions you can make for your computer — but knowing where to start is the hard part. This guide walks you through everything: choosing a distribution, installing it, and using it confidently every day. It was written by Jay LaCroix of Learn Linux TV, for complete beginners. No prior experience required.

Complementary ebook for the Testing Spring Boot Applications Masterclass. Don't buy this ebook separately without enrolling in the online course. You'll get a coupon to download this ebook when purchasing the Masterclass (Bundle Edition and above).

Learn Claude Code by building real projects. This hands-on companion turns the Claude Code Masterclass workshop into a practical self-paced guide for planning, coding, testing, reviewing, refactoring, and shipping software with AI.

Troubleshooting Linux systems can feel like solving a mystery—but the right strategies make all the difference. This ebook teaches practical techniques, tools, and real-world approaches that help you diagnose problems faster and fix them with confidence.

Understanding Kubernetes can be difficult or time-consuming. I've created this collection of sketchnotes about Kubernetes in order to explain the Cloud technology in a visual way.

Your organization does all the right things. They practice chaos engineering, GameDays, and load testing. They conduct incident reviews and operational readiness reviews. Yet the same types of incidents keep recurring. This book examines why resilience practices so often fail to build resilience, revealing the organizational dynamics that systematically transform learning mechanisms into compliance theater and what you can do to navigate them consciously.

This 2025 edition of Docker Deep Dive is a true masterpiece. The best-selling Docker book is up-to-date with the hottest Docker technologies and the latest industry trends. This edition includes a brand-new chapter on Docker Model Runner for fast, private LLM-based apps. You won't find a better and more up-to-date book on Docker. Hand-crafted and kept up to date over the past 9 years by best-selling author Nigel Poulton.

Master AI-powered infrastructure automation with this hands-on guide to building production-ready MCP servers and AI agents in Go. Transform from manual AWS operations to intelligent automation that understands your environment and makes smart decisions while keeping humans in control.

A leader at a company opens Slack one morning. The brief their virtual employee wrote looks normal: same headers, same prose voice, same cadence as every other brief that week. The last line ends mid-sentence. The API returned `stop_reason: "max_tokens"`. The system shipped it anyway. No exception. No log line. No retry. That bug doesn't look like the normal kind. This book is about why, and what to build instead.

Transform your data center into a powerful private cloud with this comprehensive guide to Red Hat's enterprise stack. Learn how to deploy OpenShift for container orchestration, integrate OpenStack for VM workloads, and implement Ceph for unified storage—all on a single lab host. Through 10 hands-on chapters, you'll build a production-ready hybrid cloud from scratch, complete with security hardening, performance optimization, and GitOps automation, backed by real-world case studies and battle-tested configurations.

Go from an empty cluster to a self-deploying GitOps pipeline, doing every step yourself: Applications, sync policy, hooks, RBAC, Helm, ApplicationSets, and a setup that ships every branch on push. You finish with a pipeline you can explain line by line, not a demo you watched run.

Understanding Docker can be difficult or time-consuming. I've created this collection of sketchnotes about Docker in order to explain the Cloud technology in a visual way.