Books

Build a Linux operating system from source with only the components you need. Learn how the kernel, boot process, system utilities, libraries and package management work together while gaining the practical skills to build and maintain your own Linux distribution.

Stop paying monthly fees for things you can run yourself. This hands-on guide walks you through building a 15-service home server: DNS, media, passwords, smart home, backups, and remote access, all on one affordable mini PC.

An enterprise-focused guide to building a safe, governed AI SRE agent skill that reviews Kubernetes platforms on Talos Linux. Read-only by default, auditable, and grounded in evidence rather than guesswork.

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.

Most writing about AI and infrastructure stops at the demo. This book starts on the day the model is confidently wrong at 3 a.m. and an auditor asks who authorised the action it took. Seven working labs — MCP servers with real identity and audit, closed-loop remediation behind a reversibility gate, and autonomy that can be revoked — for platform engineers in safety-critical and regulated industries.

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.

For those seeking practical expertise on OpenStack Flamingo, and the services that drive modern private and enterprise cloud environments, you need look no further. With this book, you gain immediate access to the latest insights on OpenStack 2025.2 Flamingo. This book is for those who want to practically experience how OpenStack works, how its services connect, and how to manage them with confidence in real-world deployments.

The draft ones were never sent. The post-mortems never said what really happened. The meetings never heard what you actually thought. This is the book that does.

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.

Stop being the on-call engineer for your own house. Build a homelab that monitors, alerts, and fixes itself — entirely managed as code.

Get your team excited and ready to collaborate in Sparx Enterprise Architect. Navigate PCS setup, security, and RAS with confidence.

Master the powerful world of Business Central administration and automation! This comprehensive guide unlocks the secrets of the Admin Center API, Automation APIs, telemetry monitoring, and performance optimization. Learn how to programmatically create companies, deploy extensions, manage users, and automate tenant provisioning with infrastructure-as-code principles. Whether you're preparing for MB-820 certification or building production-ready admin automation, this is your roadmap from manual administration to full automation expertise.

The idea behind CompTIA Linux+ Last Minute Revision is simple, but it's also ambitious. It's to help you go from not knowing to feeling confident, and it does this by focusing on the most important stuff instead of going over every single topic. We made this book because we've had loads of conversations with professionals who balance complex projects, tight deadlines, and the pressure of staying current in a constantly evolving ecosystem. Each chapter has been designed with real-world needs in mind. Every section is based around the main exam subjects and is designed to help you get ready for the real thing. Instead of just listing features, it challenges you to figure out how to fix things, automate them and keep them secure, and to understand why each step is important.

This isn't a book to put on a shelf. It's meant to be used, tested, and adapted as you build your networking skills. In this new edition, I've been working on making the teaching flow better and making technical stuff clearer without overwhelming you. You'll get the basics down, like how C++ works well with TCP/IP and how sockets are the foundation for communication. Then, I'll show you how to build real client-server apps, set up IP addressing, and use protocols like HTTP, FTP, SMTP, IMAP, and DNS directly through C++ code. Each example is practical and you can actually implement it. It shows you not just how something works, but why it matters in real networking scenarios.

This second edition is for Python programmers who want to get into networking but don't want to feel overwhelmed. My goal is to make you comfortable with reading code and using it to solve real-world networking problems. A lot of people wrote to me saying that it helped them automate tasks that they had been doing manually for years, while others shared how it gave them the confidence to switch careers or take on more advanced responsibilities in their roles.