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Add a supplemental recommended reading list.

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Since the scope of the project is only to get junior admins up to speed,
a supplemental reading list of excellent and well-written books seemed
appropriate.
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Reading List
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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 | Limoncelli | Focused more on the traditional IT role, but plenty |
| and Network Administration | | for modern sysadmins to learn |
+----------------------------+--------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| The Practice of Cloud | Limoncelli | Focused on modern system administration and |
| System Administration | | devops-y/cloud-y topics |
+----------------------------+--------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| Time Management for System | Limoncelli | Learn how to better manage your time. A classic book. |
| Administrators | | |
+----------------------------+--------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| 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 | Nemeth, et el | A classic book on UNIX/Linux system administration. |
| Administration Handbook | | 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. |
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