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.
The first title from Sysinit Press: a production field guide written and kept current by the engineers who use it.
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.
Every title picks up where the getting-started guides stop. Four 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.
Podman in Production is the first. Others are underway on the subjects we work in every day: Linux infrastructure, automation, and AI systems.
We announce each title once it reaches its final draft. Ask to be told when the next one lands.
Sysinit Press publishes our own work today. If you are writing in this space, Linux, infrastructure, automation, or AI, we are open to a conversation about publishing it together.