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.

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.

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

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

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.

Want to use NixOS "for real" at work? Interested in learning one of the hottest emerging DevOps technologies? Jumpstart your professional career by reading this book authored by a professional user of NixOS.

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.

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.

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

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

This book starts with the basics of PowerShell and uses a step-by-step approach to build up to complex concepts. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced user, this book will help you become more proficient with PowerShell. By the time you finish this book, your skills will be as well-integrated as the seamless components in the cover artwork.

Stop just reacting to problems; start engineering true reliability. "On-Call In Action" equips you with hands-on SRE strategies, proven incident management lifecycles, and effective alerting techniques. Build a world-class on-call capability that keeps your services running 24/7 and your team thriving.

If you've dabbled in containers and infrastructure or DevOps but don't know why Kubernetes is so popular, or how to get started with it, this is your book! Learn the basics of Kubernetes quickly and efficiently, with real-world application deployment examples.

Take control of Kubernetes with GitOps and Argo CD. This book shows you how to deploy, secure, and scale your applications step by step — from the basics to advanced patterns.

Get started with Kubernetes fundamentals step-by-step.