I’ve read ‘The Home Lab Handbook: Building and Managing Your Own IT Lab from Scratch’ which I would recommend to anyone just starting out in selfhosting and homelabing. Relative to that, I found a ‘course’ online (https://linuxupskillchallenge.org/#table-of-contents) that would also be useful for new arrivals.
Anyone reading any good HomeLab & Selfhosting books lately?
I don’t have any books in particular to recommend, but with homelab’ing we should be learning about the command line of our OS(Powershell, terminal(bash, zsh)).
Learning the ins and outs of something like bash, cron, environment variables, for loops, systemd services(managing, creating your own), command line networking…all things I’ve had to learn to either setup, manage, and/or troubleshoot my homelab.
So maybe basic Linux command line books? Probably O’Reilly has some along with bash.
Speaking of O’Reilly, I’ve often wondered about their book cover art. Usually it’s some type of animal.
Guys, OP is asking for recommendations for books about self-hosting, not recommendations on how to self-host books.
It’s ok. A hard left was made a long time ago, so I just went with it. LOL
Got it. Never even thought about looking into books when I was getting into the hobby. It was all just searching and following online guides. I am curious if there’s anything out there other than the typical linux/networking stuff.
There are a few that I’ve managed to see that specifically deal with selfhosting and homelabs:
- The Proxmox Homelab Bible: The Ultimate Homelab Guide to Virtualization, Self-Hosting, and DIY Cloud Power
- Automating the Homelab with Ansible, Terraform & SaltStack : A Beginner’s Guide to Smart Servers, Raspberry Pi Projects
- The Complete Homelab Bible: Learn how to Build, Automate and Master Personal and Professional IT Labs ; Virtualization, Networking, Storage, Containers, Automation, Security and Real-World
I find reading far better for me, than watching a video tutorial.
Most of the books I read are docs on all the fuggin homelab devices & services…wish I had time to read books at this point.
I save most of my reading material for when I’m laying in bed. Usually takes me about an hour to wind down so might as well make good use of the time.
