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Ask HN: Which books describe modern devops?
- dozzie 9y agoHow do you define "modern devops"?
- utellme 9y agoNot ancient, I suppose :)
- dozzie 9y agoYeah, but what about the other word from the term? It's not well-defined and its definition varies vastly from person to person.
- kreetx 9y agoI think the downvotes are not earned here -- devops as a way to work is relatively new, so one could say all of it is modern. That's where the question is probably headed.
- dasmoth 9y agoI wasn’t doing a lot of “ops” type stuff at the time but I get the impression that a few years ago some people were using the term to mean “you build it, you run it”, without necessarily requiring as much tooling and infrastructure as seems to be expected today. Modern devops == configuration management, CI tools, and expectation that you at least take an interest in containerisation. (I tend to feel that, at least until you get to quite a large scale, there’s still a fair amount of value in “developers who aren’t scared to poke production servers when needed”, but it doesn’t really seem accepted to use the word “devops” to describe that kind of setup.)
- henrik_w 9y agoProbably not exactly what you are asking, but "Site Reliability Engineering" from Google is available to read on-line: https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html
- yctrl 9y agoSite Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems https://g.co/kgs/9QF2Kv https://g.co/kgs/9QF2Kv The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations https://g.co/kgs/1cffqN https://g.co/kgs/1cffqN The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit https://g.co/kgs/ULqmRc https://g.co/kgs/ULqmRc DevOps: A Software Architect's Perspective https://g.co/kgs/trJVDi https://g.co/kgs/trJVDi Effective DevOps: Building a Culture of Collaboration, Affinity, and Tooling at Scale https://g.co/kgs/LTMEay https://g.co/kgs/LTMEay
- icebraining 9y agoIt may not be clear from the search, but the SRE book is freely available online: https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html
- lsc 9y agoDo you think devops and sre work are the same thing? In my experience, devops interviews are mostly concerned with your ability to write scripts against APIs and operate puppet or similar tools. SRE interviews usually assume you will be working with home grown configuration management, they test programming and a lot more Linux and Unix basics. Just my observation from interviewing for both titles.
- atmosx 9y agoAsk 15 people what "DevOps" is and you'll get 15 diff opinions. It's a not well defined term and companies use it for all sort of things.
- vgy7ujm 9y agoModern devops as in what used to be sysadmin..
- dsfyu404ed 9y agox2. I think any collection of Dilbert comics is an appropriate guide.
- vgy7ujm 9y agoDownvoting this is just being disillusional.. Take a look at the DevOps job postings of lately, tell me that what employers wants you to do is not exactly the same as you did 10 years ago as a sysadmin..
- CSMastermind 9y agoI don't disagree with you but I'd point out that the creation of DevOps was based on the idea that the bridge between Sysadmins and Developers was too large. So why don't we train up some developers on Sysadmin skills? At least at my company, with two exceptions, if you want to be part of the DevOps team you need to pass a developer interview first.
- dsr_ 9y agoThe Practice of System and Network Administration, Tom Limoncelli and Christine Hogan. The Practice of Cloud System Administration: Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems, Volume 2 -- by the above plus Strata Chalup. You need both.
- 22goodman 9y agoThe most fundamental DevOps book -> The Phoenix Project: https://goo.gl/84ELVc https://goo.gl/84ELVc
- atmosx 9y agoHm, no it's not. That book is geared mostly towards product owners, VP of Engineering, Team Managers, CTOs and the like.
- thraxil 9y agoThe other recommendations here are pretty good. I'd add "Infrastructure as Code" as well.
- indescions_2018 9y agoLike the SRE book from Google. Its also worth checking out how companies such as Netflix put reliability into practice. Spinnaker https://www.spinnaker.io/ https://www.spinnaker.io/ Chaos Monkey https://github.com/Netflix/chaosmonkey https://github.com/Netflix/chaosmonkey Principles of Chaos Engineering http://principlesofchaos.org/ http://principlesofchaos.org/
- rpwilcox 9y agoIf by "modern devops" you mean "they say it's appropriate in a Cloud Native environment" here's some I like or are on my reading list: * Seeking SRE * Database Reliability Engineering: Designing and Operating Resilient Database Systems * The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality * Infrastructure as Code: Managing Servers in the Cloud * Cloud Native Infrastructure * the Scuba Paper from Facebook Research * Kubernetes in Action * Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance * Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment * Cloud Native: Designing Change-tolerant Software * Understanding The Linux Memory Manager <-- kind of old (ie references the coming 64bit memory transitions), but super good * Spring Microservices in Action <--- read even if you're not a Java or Spring head, asks questions like, "maybe you should think about service discovery, routing, tracing, etc"
- atmosx 9y agoThis one seems like a great list. Thanks for sharing.
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- ogbuagu 9y agoChinuoachebe
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