Books

Unlock the full potential of Azure DevTest Labs with this comprehensive handbook. Learn to automate environments, optimize resources, and integrate DevTest Labs into your cloud workflows. Perfect for developers and IT professionals who want to streamline development and testing in the cloud.

Unlock the full potential of Kubernetes with "Building a Production-Grade Kubernetes Cluster: A Comprehensive Guide". Designed for professionals aiming to deploy resilient, scalable, and secure containerized applications, this guide offers step-by-step instructions for setting up a high-availability Kubernetes cluster. Whether you're using Debian or Red Hat-based systems, this book walks you through critical aspects like load balancing, security, networking, and cluster upgrades. With real-world examples and best practices, you'll learn how to navigate complex scenarios, optimize performance, and avoid common pitfalls. Ideal for anyone serious about mastering Kubernetes in production environments.

This book will teach you automate everything from builds and tests to database migrations and infrastructure provisioning. By the end, you'll be able to create an automated pipeline that not only builds and tests your application, but also deploys it to a scalable cloud environment such as Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), including disaster recovery and backup procedures.

Ever felt lost in conversations where terms like “scalability” and “five-nines availability” fly around? This book transforms complex Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) into clear, visual insights using hand-drawn sketchnotes and illustrated system design concepts. Instead of dense theory, you’ll learn through intuitive diagrams, real-world scenarios, and practical patterns that make NFRs easy to understand and apply. Discover how to design resilient, secure, and high-performance systems—and turn NFRs into your secret weapon for building systems that truly scale.

This book aims to empower you to take advantage of OpenStack's full potential in your own environments, not just teach you how to use it. The recipes here are as versatile as the platform itself; both are meant to be easily adjusted to suit your needs. You can use them directly in your scenarios or modify them to suit your specific requirements. I've also included troubleshooting techniques to assist you in overcoming the unavoidable hiccups on the road.

We began with the fundamentals of JSON syntax and ARM templates, which laid a solid foundation for understanding Azure Bicep. We then looked at Bicep's declarative syntax, including parameters, conditions, and loops that enable dynamic and flexible deployments. We discussed the practical aspects of developing reusable modules, automating deployments with CI/CD pipelines, and managing multiple environments. I demonstrated how to handle deployment failures using rollback and rollforward strategies, as well as Blue-Green Deployments, which reduce downtime and risk during updates. Furthermore, we investigated secure parameter handling with Azure Key Vault to ensure that your deployments are both efficient and secure.

In this newly expanded edition, you'll find out how to unlock the power of HTTP/3 to transform the delivery of your web applications, and learn how QUIC's reimagining of TCP and advanced multiplexing reshape performance and security with the web's newest protocols. Essential reading and practical tips for developers and tech professionals ready to harness the future of online communication with HTTP/3.

Unlock more of Ansible's superpowers with AWX

There are more than 100 recipes that are meant to help you solve problems in the real world. With this book, you can learn everything from how to set up your Ansible environment to advanced playbook techniques, cloud integration, CI/CD pipelines, and fixing problems. Each recipe is designed to give you useful solutions, which makes it easy to use Ansible and get the most out of it.

Unlock the secrets of high-performing tech organizations with 'All Hands on Tech.' Drawing from 40+ years of experience across corporate giants and digital-native companies, this guide offers battle-tested strategies to transform your software development process, boost innovation, and deliver real business value at scale. Learn how to:• Align your tech strategy with business goals• Structure teams for maximum impact and innovation• Implement agile and DevOps practices at scale• Foster a culture that attracts and retains top talent• Deliver value consistently and rapidly Whether you're a CTO, engineering manager, or aspiring tech leader, you'll find actionable insights to transform your organization. This Minimum Viable Book (MVB) is a work in progress, inviting community input to shape its evolution into an indispensable resource for tech leadership.

Use Markdown. Automate your documentation. Create architecture diagrams and websites.

The book walks you through the ins and outs of Terraform's more complex features and capabilities, including manipulating states, conditional logic, and dependencies. This book will help you get ready for HashiCorp's Terraform Certification by taking a deep dive into its fundamental architecture, its providers, resources, and state files.

Cloud computing and network administration have gone a long way, and I am both excited and amazed by this fact as I sit down to write this book. This book is my attempt to explain the world of service meshes with a deep dive into Linkerd in the possible smallest book size, and is the result of countless hours spent in demystifying complex systems.

A wealth of knowledge that has been painstakingly assembled to help you on your journey with Ansible