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If you want to become a professional and not just a dabbler I would recommend reading some of the following books I have in my bookshelf:

[0] RHCSA & RHCE Training and Exam Preparation Guide by Asghar Ghori. This book will help insure you know your stuff as your system engineer/administrator wise.

[1] A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editor and Shell Programming Third Edition. This book will cover the majority of what you would need and want to know when connecting to a remote linux system over ssh.

If you want to get under the hood and become an expert, the following books should help get you started:

[2] Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment

[3] The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook

[4] Linux Kernel Development 3rd Edition

To get a nice general overview and get up and going quickly:

[5] How Linux works: What every superuser should know

[6] The Linux Command Line

[7] Python Crash Course

[8] Automate the boring stuff with Python. This is a great book to help you think about how to automate most of the repetitive things you will end up doing on a regular basis.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/RHCSA-RHCE-Red-Enterprise-Linux/dp/14...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Guide-Commands-Editors-Prog...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Programming-UNIX-Environment...

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Linux-Programming-Interface-System-Ha...

[4] https://www.amazon.com/Linux-Kernel-Development-Robert-Love/...

[5] https://www.amazon.com/How-Linux-Works-Superuser-Should/dp/1...

[6] https://www.amazon.com/Linux-Command-Line-Complete-Introduct...

[7] https://www.amazon.com/Python-Crash-Course-Hands-Project-Bas...

[8] https://www.amazon.com/Automate-Boring-Stuff-Python-Programm...

⬐ grepthisab

This looks like a gold mine! Thanks so much!

⬐ iDemonix

The RHCSA/RHCE stuff is good, I passed the RHCSA a couple years ago and it's a solid set of foundations.

There's a good chat (devopschat.slack.com) that's useful for learning stuff like this.

I recommend the following books to learn more about the work involved on the Ops side:

https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Linux-Administration-Cutting-E...

https://www.amazon.com/Practice-Cloud-System-Administration-...

https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html

https://www.amazon.com/How-Linux-Works-Superuser-Should/dp/1...

https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Monitoring-Alerting-Web-Ope...

https://www.amazon.com/Ansible-DevOps-Server-configuration-m...

https://www.amazon.com/Terraform-Running-Writing-Infrastruct...

https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Services-Action-Andreas-Wittig...

⬐ sngz

for that linux administration book, how do you know whether its good or not? it's not out yet.

⬐ djvdorp

Great list of books, I have quite a few in common and some to add:

https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Linux-Administration-Cutting-E... (General Linux)

https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html (SRE)

https://www.amazon.com/Ansible-DevOps-Server-configuration-m... (Ansible)

https://www.amazon.com/Puppet-4-10-Beginners-Guide-Second/dp... (Puppet, beginner)

https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Puppet-Configuration-Managem... (Puppet, intermediate)

https://www.amazon.com/Learning-SaltStack-Second-Colton-Myer... (SaltStack)

https://www.amazon.com/Networking-Systems-Administrators-Mas... (Networking)

https://leanpub.com/serversforhackers (SysAdmin)

https://leanpub.com/scalingphp (Scaling)

https://debian-handbook.info/get/ (Debian Linux)

before you blow a lot of money on books, remember that there are forums and communities on pretty much any flavor of linux. if you want to do something in particular and you're running into issues you can learn a lot and solve your own issues with a little google-fu.

anyway here are some (good) reads:

to start: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1593273894/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=...

to get better: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1593275676/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?ie=...

security: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1590594444/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?ie=...

networking: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0596002556/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=...

basic h4x skills: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1491944331/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?ie=...