Recommended Reference Materials

Purpose

After job searching and re-entering the SRE field, many people have asked me what I would recommend to study. Below are links to various YouTube channels, books, and GitHub Repos I found helped in studying for various topics.

Note, many of these references span topics but I’ve organized them in how I’ve mostly used them.

SRE/DevOps

• DevOps for the Desperate (ISBN-13: 9781718502482)
• YouTube
  • TechWorld with Nana
• KodeKloud
• GitHub - SRE Interview Prep
• Google’s SRE Books
• ByteByteGo

Linux

• How Linux Works (ISBN-13: 9781718500402)
• Linux System Programming (ISBN-13 978-1449339531)
• Linux Programming Interface (ISBN-13: 9781593272203)
• UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook (ISBN-13: 9780137460359)

Homelabbing

• YouTube
  • Jeff Geerling
  • NetworkChuck
• Reddit - r/homelab

Kubernetes

• The Book of Kubernetes (ISBN-13: 9781718502642)