Books & articles for DevOps to read

The Phoenix Project

by Gene Kim (Author), Kevin Behr (Author), George Spafford (Author)

Bill is an IT manager at Parts Unlimited. It's Tuesday morning and on his drive into the office, Bill gets a call from the CEO. The company's new IT initiative, code named Phoenix Project, is critical to the future of Parts Unlimited, but the project is massively over budget and very late. The CEO wants Bill to report directly to him and fix the mess in ninety days or else …

Visible Ops

by Kevin Behr (Author), Gene Kim (Author), George Spafford (Author)

The Core of Visible Ops Visible Ops is a methodology designed to jumpstart implementation of controls and process improvement in IT organizations needing to increase service levels, security, and auditability while managing costs. Visible Ops is comprised of four prescriptive and self-fueling steps that take an organization from any starting point to a continually improving process. …

Lean Enterprise

By Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky, Barry O'Reilly

The first and most comprehensive book on bringing the startup mindset into large organizations. Forget vague notions of creating an "innovative culture." This book reveals the methodologies, tools, and incentive structures guiding the world's largest organizations to reclaim their innovation prowess. …

Continuous Delivery

by Jez Humble and David Farley

Getting software released to users is often a painful, risky, and time-consuming process. This groundbreaking new book sets out the principles and technical practices that enable rapid, incremental delivery of high quality, valuable new functionality to users. Through automation of the build, deployment, and testing process, and improved collaboration between developers, testers, and operations, …

Awesome Sysadmin

by @kahun

A curated list of amazingly awesome open source sysadmin resources inspired by Awesome PHP