Books

Cloud, Kubernetes, AI, security and automation have changed what DevOps really means. This book cuts through the hype with practical guidance for building reliable, scalable platforms using proven patterns, real production lessons and modern engineering practices that help teams move faster without sacrificing stability.

Whether you're deploying your first reverse proxy or managing high traffic production infrastructure, this book gives you the practical knowledge to use NGINX with confidence. Learn not just what each feature does but why it matters, how to avoid common mistakes and how to build fast, secure, reliable systems that scale.

"Tired of manual server setups that feel like reinventing the wheel every time?What if you could write down your server settings once—like a recipe—and let the computer do the rest? No more ‘oops, I forgot that checkbox.’ No more ‘Why is Server 7 acting weird?’Config as Code is the DevOps secret to consistency, speed, and sanity. And this book is your backstage pass."

Whether you're learning PowerShell or managing enterprise environments, this book is a practical reference for Windows PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell 7+. It covers core concepts, scripting, automation and administration with clear examples based on official Microsoft documentation.

Envoy Proxy is the foundation of modern cloud-native networking, powering service meshes, API gateways and AI infrastructure. This practical guide shows you how to design, deploy and operate Envoy in production with expert guidance, real-world configurations and advanced patterns for scalable, resilient systems.

Discover how Docker is revolutionizing modern software development by making applications faster to build, easier to deploy, and more reliable to run. Whether you are just getting started or refining production workflows, this practical guide will help you master containers through clear explanations, hands-on examples, and real-world techniques that you can apply with confidence.

Infrastructure automation in 2026 is about building intelligent, resilient, and cloud-native systems at scale. Server Automation with Python: The 2026 Edition explores modern Python-driven workflows spanning GitOps, immutable infrastructure, cloud SDKs, chaos engineering, and AI-assisted development, providing practical guidance for creating secure, scalable, and self-healing platforms.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is powering more enterprise workloads than ever, and this practical guide helps you get the most from it. Covering core infrastructure, networking, security, automation, AI, analytics and disaster recovery, it gives architects, administrators, developers and DevOps professionals the skills to design, deploy and manage solutions on OCI.

Google Cloud Platform Essentials is a practical guide to Google Cloud, covering compute, storage, networking, databases, Kubernetes, serverless, security, AI/ML and more. With hands-on examples and practical best practices, you'll learn to build scalable, reliable and cost-effective cloud applications while preparing for GCP certifications.

Azure from Zero to Production is a practical guide for engineers who want to build secure, reliable and automated platforms on Microsoft Azure. It covers real-world architecture, infrastructure automation, deployments, cost and performance optimization and day-to-day operations, helping you take workloads from development to production with confidence.

Whether you're deploying your first AWS application or managing cloud infrastructure at scale, The Practical AWS Guide helps you design, build, secure, automate and operate reliable AWS environments. Through practical examples, real-world architectures and proven best practices, you'll learn the skills needed to build scalable, secure and cost-effective solutions with confidence.

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.

In this book, you build a production-grade system with a multi-stage pipeline that compiles, tests, scans, provisions infrastructure with Terraform and Bicep, deploys with zero downtime, validates with Newman, manages packages through Azure Artifacts, and instruments every stage with the security controls that modern AI-era applications require.

If you're a systems administrator looking to update your skills, a developer wanting to understand infrastructure better, or someone who's new to both infrastructure and Terraform, this book has got you covered. The examples are really helpful. The explanations are crystal clear. The progression is deliberate. This book will teach you everything you need to know about building, managing and evolving infrastructure.

Set up a secure Elasticsearch and Prometheus setup in Kubernetes that can be used in any production environment!