Sysinit Press is the publishing arm of sysinit, drawing on twenty years of building and operating production systems on Linux. We write field-tested guides for engineers who operate production infrastructure, the kind of book we wanted on the shelf and went ahead and wrote. Our books are published in English, with individual titles in German.
Three titles from Sysinit Press: field guides written and kept current by the engineers who use the tools they cover.
Containers, Orchestration, and Observability with Podman.
The practitioner's guide to running containers in production with Podman: its daemonless, rootless architecture, systemd and Quadlet orchestration, health checks and self-healing, and observability with OpenTelemetry.
A Practical Guide to Fedora® 45 and KDE Plasma for Professionals.
Follows a Fedora 45 KDE Plasma workstation from installation to daily work and recovery: the Plasma desktop, software, storage, networking, and security, a developer workstation with containers and AI coding agents, and how Wayland and Plasma work underneath.
The Complete Guide to FreeBSD 15.1 for SRE and DevOps Practitioners.
FreeBSD for engineers who know Linux: a translation table first, then the base system, init and rc, pkg, ZFS, networking and pf, jails, bhyve, production operations, and kernel internals. 32 chapters, lab-verified on FreeBSD 15.1.
Every title picks up where the getting-started guides stop. Five things hold across the imprint.
Every book is written by engineers who run the thing in production, so the guidance survives contact with a real deployment.
We assume you know the basics and go straight to the operational detail: orchestration, security, observability, and failure modes.
Every edition ships as PDF and EPUB with a runnable examples archive. You buy it once, and it stays on your own drive.
Our books track the tools they cover. When an upstream release changes the guidance, we update the book to match.
Are these books written by AI? AI supports us at every step from writing to publication. The expertise comes from our authors: we do not publish a book on a topic they are not experts in themselves. The choice of topic, the outline, the experience from using the covered components daily, the practical exercises, and the troubleshooting sections come from us. We review every chapter for technical accuracy and release only what we stand behind. We describe that pipeline in the post on the toolchain behind the Podman book.
Podman in Production, Linux on the Desktop, and FreeBSD for Linux Professionals are out. Others are underway on the subjects we work in every day: Linux infrastructure, automation, and AI systems.
The Agentic Terminal
Early Access
OpenSSH in Production
Early Access
Offline Stack
In progress
Digital Sovereignty
In progress
Herding Agents
In progress
Backups in Production
Planned
The Agentic Terminal and OpenSSH in Production are available in early access: the current build as PDF and EPUB for 39 USD, with every new build until release; the price rises to 49 USD at release. We announce every other title once it reaches its final draft. You pick the order in the poll below.
You can vote for every title that is in progress or planned. Pick the book you want to read first. Your vote helps decide the writing order; the standings appear after you vote.
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