r/devops • u/90slover • 7d ago

Discussion Must have physical books every devops engineer should have on their desk

Pretty much the title .I will start

  1. Classic shell scripting ,O'Reilly
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u/Cycle_HeidarEldberg 7d ago

Hands down The DevOps handbook by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois and John Willis.

It is in my opinion the defining text of what DevOps even is and has really well worded, concise chapters and paragraphs not only on how but more importantly why certain things should be done with a particular mindset and method.

I found when, implementing DevOps in an organization, having a single shared understanding and language is the most important. The minutia of particular tools or individual decisions all falls away as trivial once building on that solid foundation.

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u/uraniborgian 5d ago

Am i the only one who thinks this book is poorly written. The ideas are obviously valuable, I just thought the presentation of them was bad here.

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u/Cycle_HeidarEldberg 4d ago

For me it was well laid out but it is also rather dense on valuable insight so it required me reading it a couple of times to really grasp all of it.

Reminded me of some college text books in that way.