--- title: "DevOps & Enterprise DevOps Recommended Books" url: "https://pipelinedriven.org/enterprise-devops-books-list.md" canonical: "https://pipelinedriven.org/enterprise-devops-books-list" tags: [] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Pipeline Driven by Roy Osherove: continuous delivery and DevOps best practices, build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps." usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # DevOps & Enterprise DevOps Recommended Books Books - [![Cover: Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation](https://pipelinedriven.org/img/c/cd-b5a069.jpg)](https://pipelinedriven.org/enterprise-devops-books-list/svo6zadfkou0uv27kz6pxg0ev1twz6) ## [Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation](https://pipelinedriven.org/enterprise-devops-books-list/svo6zadfkou0uv27kz6pxg0ev1twz6) The "Bible" of CI/CD proponents, and one of my favorites. A great book covering almost any pattern and anti pattern you could think of, in a very deep manner. [View on Amazon](http://amzn.to/2f1FH1h) - [![Cover: The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations](https://pipelinedriven.org/img/c/devopshandbook-f47030.jpg)](https://pipelinedriven.org/enterprise-devops-books-list/jkivba3nda04ezgyyuqgb0eua47yr5) ## [The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations](https://pipelinedriven.org/enterprise-devops-books-list/jkivba3nda04ezgyyuqgb0eua47yr5) A new one from 2016. Have not read this one yet, but it looks very promising based on the authors. [View on Amazon](http://amzn.to/2eRta3O) - [![Cover: Enterprise DevOps: Patterns for Succeeding with DevOps at Scale](https://pipelinedriven.org/img/c/entdevops-8642f5.jpg)](https://pipelinedriven.org/enterprise-devops-books-list/g84kk40asdl2q2joacywae5vxsr4c6) ## [Enterprise DevOps: Patterns for Succeeding with DevOps at Scale](https://pipelinedriven.org/enterprise-devops-books-list/g84kk40asdl2q2joacywae5vxsr4c6) Written by yours truly. The book picks off where others have stopped: what happens when you try to apply DevOps principles in fortune 100 organizations? What lessons can be learned? The book is still in progress but can be purchased in beta form. [Learn more](http://devops.osherove.com/) - [![Cover: Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk](https://pipelinedriven.org/img/c/ci-b18ab2.jpg)](https://pipelinedriven.org/enterprise-devops-books-list/9j1f9feuknuvl5ihh672gapn45tvvu) ## [Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk](https://pipelinedriven.org/enterprise-devops-books-list/9j1f9feuknuvl5ihh672gapn45tvvu) Another book I grew up on, talking about branching models, coding patterns and lots and lots of automation. This is but one of the practices you would be doing in a DevOps culture. [View on Amazon](http://amzn.to/2e6TMwu) - [![Cover: The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win Paperback – October 16, 2014](https://pipelinedriven.org/img/c/phoenixproj-1806ac.jpg)](https://pipelinedriven.org/enterprise-devops-books-list/996b9gc085i16jh6htuycp8z0p2kqc) ## [The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win Paperback – October 16, 2014](https://pipelinedriven.org/enterprise-devops-books-list/996b9gc085i16jh6htuycp8z0p2kqc) A seminal book that helps explain what everyday IT organizations go through. A bit dated but still very relevant, it helps to explain lean concepts and the theory of constraints as applied to the IT business. Based off of the ideas in the book "The Goal" also mentioned on this web page. [View on Amazon](http://amzn.to/2fgnJgo) - [![Cover: The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvemen](https://pipelinedriven.org/img/c/thegoal-7e0f02.jpg)](https://pipelinedriven.org/enterprise-devops-books-list/6xm8hxelahmh0b9h9wolmj7ilz7kh1) ## [The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvemen](https://pipelinedriven.org/enterprise-devops-books-list/6xm8hxelahmh0b9h9wolmj7ilz7kh1) A book that doesn't talk about IT, but is great to understand the lean toyota concepts, theory of constraints and much more. If you want to dig deeper into the roots of DevOps and Lean, this is a classic to dive into. [View on Amazon](http://amzn.to/2fgpzxR) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). 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