Library
Every book cited across the paths and certification guides, in one place. Each entry says why it earns its place and, where the same material is available for nothing, names the free alternative first.
DevOpsThe Phoenix Project
A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford · 2018 · 3rd ed.
Free alternativeCited by 3
SRESite Reliability Engineering
How Google Runs Production Systems
Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, Niall Richard Murphy · 2016
Free alternativeCited by 2
DevOpsTerraform: Up & Running
Writing Infrastructure as Code
Yevgeniy Brikman · 2022 · 3rd ed.
Free alternativeCited by 3
KubernetesKubernetes: Up and Running
Dive into the Future of Infrastructure
Brendan Burns, Joe Beda, Kelsey Hightower, Lachlan Evenson · 2022 · 3rd ed.
Free alternativeCited by 6
FundamentalsThe Linux Command Line
A Complete Introduction
William Shotts · 2019 · 2nd ed.
Free alternativeCited by 1
FinOpsCloud FinOps
Collaborative, Real-Time Cloud Value Decision Making
J. R. Storment, Mike Fuller · 2023 · 2nd ed.
Free alternativeCited by 3
ObservabilityObservability Engineering
Achieving Production Excellence
Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, George Miranda, Austin Parker · 2026 · 2nd ed.
Free alternativeCited by 3
Cloud securityPractical Cloud Security
A Guide for Secure Design and Deployment
Chris Dotson · 2023 · 2nd ed.
Free alternativeCited by 5
Platform engineeringPlatform Engineering on Kubernetes
Mauricio Salatino · 2023
Free alternativeCited by 3- Databases
Database Reliability Engineering
Designing and Operating Resilient Database Systems
Laine Campbell, Charity Majors · 2017
Free alternativeCited by 1 - Architecture
Fundamentals of Software Architecture
A Modern Engineering Approach
Mark Richards, Neal Ford · 2025 · 2nd ed.
Free alternativeCited by 1 
FundamentalsDesigning Data-Intensive Applications
Martin Kleppmann · 2017
Cited by 4
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