Reading List

This is a list of additional material should you wish to dive deeper on particular topics.

Book

Author (last name)

Description

Network Warrior

Donahue

Picks up where CCNA leaves off. Lots of real-world networking advice.

DNS & BIND

Liu & Albitz

One of the best books available on DNS

The Practice of System and Network Administration

Limoncelli

Focused more on the traditional IT role, but plenty for modern sysadmins to learn

The Practice of Cloud System Administration

Limoncelli

Focused on modern system administration and devops-y/cloud-y topics

Time Management for System Administrators

Limoncelli

Learn how to better manage your time. A classic book.

Web Operations

Allspaw

Full of lots of practical advice on web operations. Limoncelli’s Cloud System Administration is kind of like an updated and more in-depth version of this.

Release It!

Nygard

Focused more on the developer side of of application design/deployment, but sysadmins will learn a lot from this book.

UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook

Nemeth, et el

A classic book on UNIX/Linux system administration. Does not cover modern tooling/practices, but rather more in-depth teaching of Linux/UNIX operating systems

The Phoenix Project

Kim

A parable about DevOps, that does a great job explaining what DevOps is all about.

Continuous Delivery

Humble & Farley

Discusses continuous delivery practices, anti-patterns, and solutions. One of the few books that brings together many related topics (CM, VCS, etc) into a cohesive idea of continuous delivery.