Books

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.

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.

You cannot lead what you cannot see. In AI-heavy organizations, illegibility is now the default. This book gives you fracture names, diagnostic protocols, and field kits for seeing and governing systems where dashboards lie and decisions live in prompts no one saved.

A practical handbook packed with real-world advice to help you write better code, adopt effective developer habits, and build great software.

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.

This practical handbook provides a step-by-step guide for you to get the best continuous delivery pipeline for your software.

You can read about Vault in an afternoon. You will still not be able to run it. Twenty-four chapters, each ending in a working lab on your own laptop — and five that ask you to break your setup on purpose, because nobody who has recovered a sealed cluster under pressure learned it from a reference manual.

Ansible is a powerful infrastructure automation tool. Kubernetes is a powerful application deployment platform. Learn how to use these tools to automate massively-scalable, highly-available infrastructure.

Modern networks like the Internet — explained as simply as possible — but no simpler.

Lean Enterprise Architecture (LEA) redefines EA as a lean, value-driven discipline that bridges strategy, business, and technology. Instead of static blueprints, it shows you how to build adaptive architectures, enable transformation, and create measurable impact. Whether you are an enterprise architect, IT strategist, or business leader, LEA equips you to lead with clarity and influence.

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.

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

You’ve facilitated your 50th retrospective. The same issues surface. The same action items are created. Nothing changes. Features marked "done" sit in queues for months. You’re doing your job perfectly—and it’s making no difference.What if the problem isn’t your facilitation skills? What if the Scrum Master role itself is trapped in an outdated model?

Build a clear mental model of Kubernetes with illustrations, diagrams, small YAML examples, and practical kubectl commands. This beginner-focused guide connects core concepts to networking, storage, security, and everyday troubleshooting for systems engineers.