DevOps — resources
roadmap.sh: https://roadmap.sh/devops
Books
- The Phoenix Project (Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford) — a novel that teaches the cultural and flow principles behind DevOps; the best on-ramp to why DevOps exists.
- The DevOps Handbook (Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis) — the practical companion to The Phoenix Project; concrete practices for CI/CD, flow, feedback, and continuous learning.
- Site Reliability Engineering (Betsy Beyer et al., Google) — the canonical SRE book on running production systems at scale: SLOs, error budgets, on-call, and toil reduction. Free online.
- Accelerate (Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim) — the research behind the DORA metrics; shows which engineering practices actually drive performance.
Courses / practice
- KodeKloud — hands-on labs for Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD with in-browser environments.
- Kubernetes the Hard Way — Kelsey Hightower’s bootstrap-it-yourself guide; the deepest way to actually understand Kubernetes.
- roadmap.sh DevOps roadmap — the canonical interactive roadmap this track mirrors, with per-node resources.