Network Automation Cookbook: Over 100 recipes to effectively configure and manage network infrastructure with Ansible , Second Edition ($38.99 Value) FREE for a Limited Time
Network Automation Cookbook, now in its second edition, is your essential guide to building robust network automation workflows across modern hybrid infrastructures. Building on the foundation laid in the first edition, this version dives deeper into Ansible’s role in automating network infrastructure, expanding coverage to include modern use cases across enterprise and cloud networks. The book introduces Ansible’s core concepts, such as playbooks, inventories, variables, loops, and templates, and progresses to advanced topics such as parallelism, fact caching, custom filters, and modular design. You will automate real-world scenarios using Nokia SR, Cisco IOS, Juniper, and Arista devices in a fully reproducible virtual lab. The chapters also help you explore cloud automation for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, and integrate validation tools such as PyATS, Batfish, and Nautobot. New chapters cover event-driven automation, AWX for workflow execution, and Terraform integration. By using hands-on labs and fully reproducible recipes, you can practice real-world scenarios and reinforce your skills. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped with the tools and workflows to automate infrastructure efficiently with Ansible. Offer Expires 11/5/2025.
Cybersecurity Beginner’s Guide: Understand the inner workings of cybersecurity and learn how experts keep us safe ($27.99 Value) FREE for a Limited Time
In today’s increasingly connected world, cybersecurity touches every aspect of our lives, yet it remains a mystery to most. This beginner’s guide pulls back the curtain on how cybersecurity really works, revealing what professionals do to keep us safe. Learn how cyber threats emerge, how experts counter them, and what you can do to protect yourself online. Perfect for business leaders, tech enthusiasts, and anyone curious about digital security, this book delivers insider knowledge without the jargon. This edition also explores cybersecurity careers, AI/ML in cybersecurity, and essential skills that apply in both personal and professional contexts. Air Force pilot turned cybersecurity leader Joshua Mason shares hard-won insights from his unique journey, drawing on years of training teams and advising organizations worldwide. He walks you through the tools and strategies used by professionals, showing how expert practices translate into real-world protection. With up-to-date information of the latest threats and defenses, this cybersecurity book is both an informative read and a practical guide to staying secure in the digital age.
The Women of Microsoft: Empowering Stories from the Minds that Coded the World ($28.00 Value) FREE for a Limited Time
An inspiring exploration of the women who have shaped and led Microsoft and the lessons we can learn from them. In The Women of Microsoft: Empowering Stories from the Minds that Coded the World, a team of renowned digital storytellers recounts many of the fascinating journeys taken by the women who have shaped, guided, and led Microsoft over the last five decades. The book pays homage to the highs and lows, joys and sorrows, and opportunities and challenges of the women who have set out to make a difference in tech. The authors share personal stories and insights that offer a window into real-world tech leadership and that help demonstrate how to overcome obstacles that stand in the way of female tech success. They encourage readers to craft their own compelling narratives, unbound by the limitations that may have prevented women from previous generations from achieving their full potential. The Women of Microsoft also includes: Examples and case studies of impactful women currently serving as exemplars for future generations. Celebrations of women’s roles in innovation and the integral part that women tech professionals have played in shaping technology. Concrete, proven advice for navigating the challenges awaiting contemporary women tech leaders. An empowering guide filled with actionable advice and emphasizing the global impact of Microsoft’s women,The Women of Microsoftis perfect for tech enthusiasts and professionals, professional women, corporate leaders and managers, students of technology and business, and those interested in fulfilling their personal and professional potentials. Offer Expires 11/5/2025.
The 90 Day Brand Plan: How to Unleash Your Personal Brand to Dominate the Competition and Scale Your Business ($28.00 Value) FREE for a Limited Time
Become a known name and authority in your field to unlock infinite money-making opportunities. In The 90 Day Brand Plan: A Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering the Art of Branding, celebrated branding agency founder and influencer Dain Walker delivers an expert roadmap to harnessing your authority, credibility, and skills in your field to create consistent money-making opportunities. In the book, you’ll learn how to get paid for being a known name in your industry through your businesses, products, and services. Discover how to nail and scale your likeability, charisma, and character as you channel your personal brand’s attention into whatever company or product you’re building. The author explains how he used his own personal Instagram following to grow multi-million-dollar brands, and how you can do the same thing. You’ll also find: Strategies to use your creativity, sales abilities, action plans, and fun daily mental exercises to create the right mindset and skillset for growth. Ways to eliminate fear, rejection, and self-doubt as you learn to unpack personal belief into the creation of content of all sorts. Techniques to harness a variety of income streams, including those from social media, speaking, selling, podcasting, marketing, pitching, and advertising. An effective and insightful guide to harnessing the full potential of your personal credibility, expertise, and authority, The 90 Day Brand Plan will prove invaluable to influencers, promoters, marketers, entrepreneurs, and founders of all stripes.. Offer Expires 11/4/2025.
Ideas Don’t Die. Companies Do.: Future-proof your business by creating an ideas-obsessed enterprise ($28.00 Value) FREE for a Limited Time
Rethink ideas as the real value to the future of your business in a technology-world where knowledge is increasingly a commodity. In Ideas Don’t Die. Companies Do. renowned voice on disruptive agility and executive Hari Abburi delivers an insightful framework for leaders to future proof their companies by creating an idea obsessed enterprise. In the book, you’ll learn why ideas are more important than customers to disrupt the industry and marketplace. The author explains how to distinguish between ideas that are truly original and those that require strategic execution to differentiate them from other choices on the market. He offers key insights into how to glean information from other companies who have worked with the idea and how to apply that knowledge to your firm’s own idea. Inside the book: Explanations of the “idea moat” that creates exponential value at one company as opposed to another that uses similar ideas. Compelling answers to questions about idea timing, and why ideas that failed a few years ago can be successful today. How to shift your company’s focus from thinking customers to thinking ideas. Perfect for managers, executives, entrepreneurs, founders, and other business leaders, Ideas Don’t Die. Companies Do. will also benefit product team leaders and other innovators with a desire to bring new and exciting ideas to the market.
From Panic to Profit: Uncover Value, Boost Revenue, and Grow Your Business with the 80/20 Principle ($28.00 Value) FREE for a Limited Time
Structured corporate strategy to launch ambitious and consistent growth in just 100 days. Armed with the hands-on guidance in From Panic to Profit: Uncover Value, Boost Revenue, and Grow Your Business with the 80/20 Principle, companies of any size and in any industry can pivot from panic to profit in a 100-day turnaround using just four steps: set the goal, develop the strategy, build the structure, and launch the action plan. To set the stage for the four steps, this book first empowers leaders to replace their fear, uncertainty, and doubt with confidence from segment-by-segment insights into their business, its customers, its products, and its markets. Written by Bill Canady, seasoned CEO with more than 30 years of experience as a global business executive, this book explores key concepts including: Unlocking the power of the 80/20 principle to boost company revenue, reduce costs, and accelerate profits. Creating a business plan designed for continuous monitoring and improvement over a three- to five-year growth program. Growing both organically and through strategic acquisition, developing the talent, expertise, and innovation needed to win in today’s increasingly dynamic markets. From Panic to Profit: Increase Revenue, Uncover Value, Boost Revenue, and Grow Your Business with the 80/20 Principle lays out an essential blueprint for all entrepreneurs, executives, managers, and business leaders seeking the confidence and tools they need to help their organizations reach great heights.
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