Ask Me Anything: DevOps

Is there one book you would recommend for someone working in a DevOps team?

The book you must read is ā€˜The Phoenix Projectā€™. This is like ā€˜The Goalā€™. It is a business novel. Keep in mind that the environment is enterprise IT, not product development. I havenā€™t seen a lot of testers write about enterprise IT. So not sure if this will resonate.

Donā€™t expect to see any insights related to testing, i.e., the KanerBachBolton type of testing.

I didnā€™t find most of the other books exciting, like the agile books. There is a lot of tech.

The Google SRE book is readable and free: https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/toc/index.html
That is different from ā€˜The Phoenix Projectā€™, it is focused on product companies like Google, Netflix.

Even the SRE book has a lot of tech. Unless you work with it, it is difficult to relate. The Phonenix project is a narrative, and I found it easier to understand.

One last note - for most people new to DevOps, testing in DevOps is focused on test automation. That is a mistake. Donā€™t start with that premise when you read.