The Site Reliability Workbook
by Niall Richard Murphy, David K. Rensin · first published 2018
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Definitely start with https://www.amazon.com/Site-Reliability-Workbook-Practical-I... there is also an audible version. It covers just about everything and in detail. This is DevOps maturity model called DORA: https://sre.google/ Check out CNCF on tooling: https://sre.google/…
on “What are the best books or resources on SRE automation that are also practical?” ↗Two others listed here: https://sre.google/books/, "Building Secure & Reliable Systems" and "The Site Reliability Workbook". I would also mention "The Datacenter as a Computer: designing warehouse-scale machines". https://research.google/pubs/the-datacenter-as-a-computer-de...
on “10 Years of the SRE book: Announcing the second edition” ↗Is the SRE workbook (not the main SRE book) also too theoretical? https://www.amazon.com/Site-Reliability-Workbook-Practical-I...
on “What are the best books or resources on SRE automation that are also practical?” ↗Ah got it, according to Amazon it isn't released until August 4th. https://www.amazon.com/Site-Reliability-Workbook-Practical-I...
on “Site Reliability Engineering” ↗This book is pretty well known in the HN space, are you referring to "The Site Reliability Workbook"? That looks like it hasn't even been released yet in print, which is very cool that they are offering free downloads. If so, thanks for the link! Can't wait to pour through this bad boy.
on “Site Reliability Engineering” ↗…Vagrant or Docker to test a [set of] machines) https://github.com/stack72/ops-books - I'd add "Time Management for System Administrators" (2005) https://landing.google.com/sre/books/ - There's now a "Site Reliability Workbook" to go along with the Google SRE book. Both are free online. https://response.pagerduty.com - The PagerDuty Incident Response Documentation is also free online. - OpsGenie has a free plan also with…
on “Is there a program like codeacademy but for learning sysadmin?” ↗That's why this book is called the Site Reliability Workbook. It is written to be appropriate for your company.
on “The Site Reliability Workbook: Practical Ways to Implement SRE [pdf]” ↗…overloaded term is definitely now meaningless, in that it's been discussed ad nauseam. In the meantime, interesting work continues to be done developing the ideas of DevOps and extending them. [1] The Site Reliability Workbook, from Google, 2018 https://books.google.com/books?id=fElmDwAAQBAJ [2] Securing DevOps, Julien Vehent, 2018 https://www.manning.com/books/securing-devops
on “Introducing Azure DevOps” ↗