Top 10 Must-read DevOps Books for Devops Engineer

We created this list of 10 must-read books to help you continue to learn DevOps and master this key method in Software Delivery. You can find examples, case studies, and expert advice for different roles and maturities.

1. Phoenix Project: IT, DevOps and novels that help you win business
This unique story about the fictional DevOps implementation uses a narrative framework to teach desirable courses about organizational challenges, such as challenges around culture, adventure, and trust. It provides a high-level overview, even for non-technical people, it helps to understand different perspectives and promote fruitful discussions.

2. Continuous delivery: release reliable software through build, test and deployment automation
A groundbreaking job has laid a technical foundation for the daily work of DevOps engineers. This book is regarded as a must-read book for software or application developers because it solves all problems and provides a practical guide with practical examples.

3. DevOps Handbook: How to create world-class agility, reliability and security in technical organizations
This book is an influential classic in this field and is essential for anyone in the DevOps field. It provides meticulously studied case studies and best practices, and provides feasible recommendations to make IT organizations more productive and profitable. Developers, operations engineers, and IT managers can all benefit from this rich guide.

4. Acceleration: the science of lean software and DevOps: building and expanding high-performance technology organizations
Have you ever wanted to compile all the data in the DevOps status report into a book? That's it, it includes four years of groundbreaking research conducted by experts. Ideal for any level of management, this reference will show you how to use strict statistical methods to measure software delivery performance.

5. DevOps Adoption Manual: Guidelines for DevOps adoption in multi-speed IT enterprises
The DevOps Adoption Guide was awarded the "DevOps Best Book of 2017" by the "DevOps Adoption Guide" to recognize the enterprise-level DevOps is facing a series of unique challenges. As the global CTO adopted by IBM DevOps, author Sanjeev Sharma is in a unique position to solve these problems. This guide provides "scripts" that can be used to execute these games in different scenarios and situations based on your company's position in its digital transformation process, and ultimately create a customized game plan.

6. Leading change: large-scale application of agile and DevOps principles
Frontier companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix are using Agile and DevOps to produce tremendous results, while other organizations are trapped in their slow old systems. Leading change aims to provide a clear framework for executives to improve development and delivery, and accelerate the pace of culture. It is short and easy to understand and covers all advanced issues.

7. Start and expand DevOps in the enterprise
As Vice President of Quality Inspection, Release and Operations at Macy’s.com, Gary Gruver led the continuous delivery journey. In this book, he shares his methods of organizational improvement throughout the organization so that the team can work independently and maintain consistency. These suggestions are clear, direct, and concise, with warnings, pitfalls, and specific metrics

8. Engineering transformation
Enterprises cannot derive the expected benefits from their agile and DevOps implementation. Engineering transformation provides a systematic way to improve how to develop software for a wide range of applications, translate manufacturing and engineering improvements into software language and framework so that companies can understand how to do better.

9. Effective DevOps: establish large-scale collaboration, affinity and tool culture
Effective DevOps is primarily aimed at managers and those in leadership roles. It addresses the cultural aspects of successful DevOps implementation (rather than tools, processes, and technology), with a special emphasis on diversity. It handles conflict resolution, collaboration, and large-scale application of all content.

10. Site reliability engineering
Website Reliability Engineering (SRE) is not your traditional guide or manual, but a series of papers written by members and alumni of the Google SRE organization. Many content is specific to Google, but still provides an interesting perspective for solving problems. In the relatively heavy 550 pages, you can think of this book as a collection. No need to read in order, pick the works that are most relevant to your interests. Please note that Google provides this resource for free on its website, which is linked below.