Top Books on Automation

February 27, 2026 · View on GitHub

  • Ansible for DevOps - Jeff Geerling - 2020 - Automate servers, cloud, and containers with Ansible; practical and hands-on.
  • Pipeline as Code - Mohamed Labouardy - 2021 - CI/CD with Jenkins, Docker, Terraform; code-driven deployment pipelines.
  • Grokking Continuous Delivery - Christie Wilson - 2022 - Building effective CD pipelines and keeping software release-ready.
  • CI/CD Design Patterns - Garima Bajpai et al. - 2024 - Design patterns, pipeline components, testing, and deployment strategies.
  • Automating the Boring Stuff with Python - Al Sweigart - 2019 - Automate tasks with Python; files, web scraping, Excel, email — free online.