Recommended Resources

The following books provide depth and perspective that complements the whole course, not just individual weeks. None of them are required reading, but each one rewards the investment.

• UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Trent Hein, and Ben Whaley: the definitive reference for Linux and Unix system administration, covering everything from the command line to networking, storage, security, and large-scale operations.
• Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems edited by Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, and Niall Richard Murphy: Google’s collected practices for building and operating reliable systems at scale, covering automation, monitoring, incident response, and postmortems. Available free at sre.google/sre-book.
• The Site Reliability Workbook: Practical Ways to Implement SRE edited by Betsy Beyer, Niall Richard Murphy, David K. Rensin, Kent Kawahara, and Stephen Thorne: a companion to the SRE book with practical exercises and case studies for implementing SRE principles in your organization. Available free at sre.google/workbook.
• The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim, Patrick Debois, John Willis, and Jez Humble: the practical guide to DevOps transformation, covering flow, feedback, and continuous learning across development and operations.
• The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford: a novel that illustrates DevOps principles through a fictional IT crisis. A useful companion to the DevOps Handbook that makes the cultural and organizational ideas concrete.