12 Books That Shape How You Think About DevOps and Infra
_jaydeepkarale · x · 2026-09-16
A curated 12-book reading list for DevOps and infrastructure engineers:
- Culture & methods: The Phoenix Project (fiction, recommended starting point), The DevOps Handbook, The Unicorn Project, Effective DevOps
- SRE: Google's Site Reliability Engineering (free online), Seeking SRE, The Site Reliability Workbook
- Research: Accelerate, data-backed findings on high-performing teams
- Tooling: Kubernetes Up and Running, Terraform Up and Running (called the best Terraform book), Cloud Native Patterns, Infrastructure as Code
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