44 Books for DevOps, Site Reliability, and Cloud Engineers

Ioannis Moustakis
Spacelift
Published in
11 min readNov 1, 2022

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This blog post showcases some books to advance your career to the next level. We will look into books relevant to DevOps, Site Reliability, and Cloud Engineers & Architects around technical, business, personal growth, and other topics. The list includes a collection of free and paid books in various areas and links to them.

Of course, this list isn’t exhaustive, and many excellent books are out there. This collection is heavily opinionated based on my taste, professional experiences, and influences. If your favorite book isn’t mentioned, please drop a comment below, as I am always searching for new inspiration and exceptional books for my library.

I have grouped the books into categories, and for each book, I will mention a few sentences regarding why I believe it’s a great read. The boundaries between some of these categories are blurry, so some books could also belong to other groups. Don’t treat this categorization as static but as a means to share some interesting books with you.

DevOps Books

This section gathers some inspirational books about DevOps evolution and what that means in practice for organizations and their people.

1. Accelerate. The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and

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Ioannis Moustakis
Spacelift

Solutions Architect at AWS. Talks about Cloud Architecture, DevOps & SRE. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ioannis-moustakis/ Opinions expressed are solely my own.