Top Five Upcoming DevOps Books to Read this Spring

Finding up to date  DevOps books on technology can be difficult. Trends are always changing, technologies are always growing, you never know what books will provide relevant information. However, it’s hard to argue against these five DevOps books that are coming out shortly!

Node in the Network: Scaling and Deploying Modern App Architectures – March 25th

 “How do you handle API method deprecation over time? Or simultaneously support multiple versions of the same API? How do you partition an application by function in a scalable environment? This practical book provides developers, DevOps practitioners, software architects, and IT managers with a foundational understanding of HTTP proxy-based architectures and how HTTP messages flow through them.”

Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Organizations – March 27

“Through four years of groundbreaking research to include data collected from the State of DevOps reports conducted with Puppet, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim set out to find a way to measure software delivery performance―and what drives it―using rigorous statistical methods. This book presents both the findings and the science behind that research, making the information accessible for readers to apply in their own organizations.”

Securing DevOps: Safe Services in the Cloud – March 31st

“Security teams need to adopt the techniques of DevOps and switch their focus from defending only the infrastructure to protecting the entire organization by improving it continuously.

Securing DevOps explores how the techniques of DevOps and Security should be applied together to make cloud services safer. By the end of this book, readers will be ready to build security controls at all layers, monitor and respond to attacks on cloud services, and add security organization-wide through risk management and training.”

DevOps For the Modern Enterprise: Winning Practices to Transform Legacy IT Organizations  – April 3rd

“Mirco Hering, a thought leader in managing IT within legacy organizations, lays out a roadmap to success for IT managers, showing them how to create the right ecosystem, how to empower people to bring their best to work every day, and how to put the right technology in the driver’s seat to propel their organization to success.

“But just having the right methods and tools will not magically transform an organization; the cultural change that is the hardest is also the most impactful. Using principles from Agile, Lean, and DevOps as well as first-hand examples from the enterprise world, Hering addresses the different challenges that legacy organizations face as they transform into modern IT departments.”

Mastering DevOps Automation – May 9

“This book is divided into four modules. In the first module, you will begin with an introduction to IAC where you will be creating your entire infrastructure using Terraform and also how you can resuse your Terraform modules. In the second module, you will learn about Configuration management using Chef along with writing your own Chef cookbooks. You will also be integrating Chef with Terraform modules to set up a pool of servers. with ease. In the third module, you will learn How to create a release pipeline, keep your application upto date and also learn some Best practices to automate deployments. In the last and 4th module, which is Containerization, you will learn to scale up your microservices application create a Kubernetes architecture to run your applications, create a Kubernetes cluster using Terraform to provision servers and Chef cookbook. Lastly, you will also learn about deploying and scaling a Kubernetes application.”