Books

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.

Linux is one of the best decisions you can make for your computer — but knowing where to start is the hard part. This guide walks you through everything: choosing a distribution, installing it, and using it confidently every day. It was written by Jay LaCroix of Learn Linux TV, for complete beginners. No prior experience required.

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.

When a license renewal lands at 567% of last year's bill, renting your infrastructure stops being a strategy. This is the escape tunnel: a complete production build of Apache CloudStack 4.22 LTS — KVM, Ceph, SONiC leaf-spine — across a three-city UK estate, written by an engineer with 32 years of building the real thing. Own your cloud down to the last packet.

Take Kubernetes beyond the basics and learn how to run clusters in production with confidence. Covering architecture, networking, security, observability, GitOps, and day-to-day operations, this practical guide is packed with hands-on examples, proven patterns, and real-world insights for managing Kubernetes at any scale.

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.

The Linux Virtual Filesystem is the abstraction that unifies every filesystem in Linux behind a single interface. This book explores its architecture, kernel implementation, and modern applications, giving system administrators, developers, and kernel engineers the knowledge to understand, troubleshoot, and extend the VFS.

> 3:07 a.m. The pager goes off. Your database is down, the disk is full, and you're the on-call engineer holding the line. Open this manual to the playbook you need right now to diagnose, stabilize, and verify the fix -- fast.

Learn Linux with a practical, step-by-step guide that takes you from beginner to advanced user. Build real skills through hands-on examples and gain the confidence to use Linux in professional and everyday environments.

Build a powerful AI assistant that runs entirely on your own hardware. The Ollama Assistant Handbook takes you from installation to a production-ready assistant with memory, tools, voice, vision, and automation through practical, hands-on examples you can use immediately.

Ready to make the switch to Linux? *The Linux Migration Handbook* guides you through every step of the journey, from choosing a distribution and installing Linux to replacing your favorite apps and mastering the tools that make Linux powerful. Whether you want more control, better privacy, lower costs, or a deeper understanding of open source, this book helps you become a confident Linux user.

Go from your first Ansible playbook to enterprise-scale automation across hybrid clouds. This guide empowers sysadmins and DevOps pros with production-ready patterns for VMware, Kubernetes, and major cloud providers, helping you build secure, scalable infrastructure while avoiding common pitfalls.

Endpoint Detection and Response is at the core of modern cybersecurity. This book explores the technologies behind EDR, from kernel-level telemetry to threat hunting and zero-trust architectures, providing practical guidance for deploying and operating EDR at scale.

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.

Master PostgreSQL administration with a practical guide to deploying, securing, optimizing, and operating production databases. Covering PostgreSQL 17 and 18, this book combines real-world examples, hands-on labs, and proven best practices for reliable, high-performance systems.