Books

Docker has quickly become the container engine of choice, and it may be replacing a virtual machine near you soon. This book offers a step-by-step guide to walk you through building your first real PHP web application using Docker while explaining the basics of the platform along the way.

Practical guide for building and managing globally-distributed applications on Microsoft Azure. Learn how to use Azure Services to achieve maximum performance in web applications deployed in multiple regions around the world. Design resilient planet-scale web applications, automate resource provisioning and release processes.

This book will train you to be a master in bash, a technology that's more often used than understood. It uses the 'Hard Way' method, the best way to develop your skills. Based on many years of experience, the book takes you through what you need to know to understand what's going on when you look at others' bash scripts, and write your own.

Venturing out into the vast world of AWS can be a daunting and sometimes really scary experience. It was for me. The AWS Cloud Walkabout is my version of the journey.

This Primer is for everyone who is interested in quality in software development, and that should be everyone; because delivering poor quality software at speed is a certified recipe for failure.

In this hands-on book, you will learn how to manage logs using the awesome open-source Graylog and create a scalable, high-throughput and high-available log processing architecture deploying Elasticsearch, MongoDB and Graylog clusters on top of Docker/Vagrant. Also, we will use Fluentd high availability setup based on forwarders and aggregators.

Learn how to create a real-world Continuous Delivery pipeline for a Spring Boot app by setting up a Kubernetes cluster and running Jenkins Pipelines in a scalable fashion (dynamically allocating Jenkins slaves as Kubernetes pods) to test, build, release and deploy a new version to testing, staging and production environments using Canary Release

Finally a free, open source book designed to teach Unix to anybody! Unix is over 40 years old yet it's still used to power your phone, the internet, and the latest scientific research. If you know how to use a mouse and keyboard then this book can provide you with the foundation you need to start coding - no previous experience expected!

Learn all about Pester, the testing framework for PowerShell.

DevOps Katas: Hands-On DevOps is about three of the most important DevOps tools: Docker, Git, and Jenkins. You'll learn by doing with each set of exercises.

Discover DC/OS and container orchestration with this high level guide and key concept explanation from Spicule.co.uk. Containers are the hot thing in the Sysops and Devops world currently, but managing them can be time consuming, DC/OS will allow you to do just that quickly and easily.

A Practical Guide to Testing in DevOps offers direction and advice to anyone involved in testing in a DevOps environment. You can read the reviews or check out the Reader Testimonials below.

Learn to scale your data science projects from comfort of your development laptop to production scale on the Google and Amazon Clouds. Learn Python for Data Science. Setup Google Cloud Datastore, Firebase, and DynamoDB. Use Neo4j and Open Refine in your workflow.

Strong build & release engineering capabilities are key to rapid and reliable delivery of modern software systems. Learn how software releasability means not only being able to deploy faster, but also being able to quickly recover from disaster and adapt to changing technical and business challenges.