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. |