DevOps & automation

Official resources

• Azure DevOps documentation
• GitHub Actions documentation
• DevOps roadmap

CI/CD platforms

• Azure DevOps Services - Microsoft’s platform (Pipelines, Repos, Boards, Artifacts)
• GitHub Actions - workflow automation (marketplace)
• GitHub Secret Protection + Code Security - the unbundled successors to GitHub Advanced Security

Version control

• Semantic Versioning
• Git Flow (don’t follow this too rigidly!)
• GitHub Skills - interactive tutorials
• Conventional Commits
• Pro Git book

Monitoring and observability

• OpenTelemetry
• App Insights - Azure APM
• Sentry - error tracking and performance monitoring
• New Relic - observability platform
• Raygun - crash reporting and APM
• PostHog - open-source product analytics
• Prometheus - monitoring and alerting
• Grafana - observability dashboards

Community resources and reading

• The Phoenix Project
• The DevOps Handbook
• Site Reliability Engineering books
• Awesome DevOps
• DevOps subreddit
• Hacker News
• Slashdot
• The Register
• MIT Technology Review
• /r/sysadmin + WinAdmins discord
• /r/homelab + discord