The Best DevOps Blogs
TL;DR: The best DevOps blogs for engineers and IT teams in 2025 are:
Arrested DevOps (5.0/5.0) – Industry-leading podcast featuring every major DevOps thought leader
Microsoft Azure Blog (4.8/5.0) – Comprehensive cloud computing insights and Azure-specific DevOps practices
The Register (4.6/5.0) – Best source for DevOps industry news and business perspective
These blogs were evaluated on writing quality, consistency, longevity, technical depth, and broad usefulness. Each serves different needs from hands-on tutorials to strategic insights.
The term “DevOps” seems to be everywhere these days, but I’ve found that understanding what it truly means and how it’s applied in practice can be surprisingly tricky. It’s a broad term that touches on everything from cultural philosophies and automation tools to specific practices like continuous integration and infrastructure as code. It can mean different things to different teams and organizations.
To help you learn more about this versatile field, I’ve put together a list of some of the best DevOps blogs out there. These are the blogs that I turn to when I want clear explanations, consistent quality, real technical depth, and practical advice. Whether you’re a DevOps pro or just starting to explore this world, I’m confident you’ll find value in these blogs.
While not strictly a blog, the Arrested DevOps podcast was one of the first that I listened to when I started getting interested in DevOps. They have had nearly every big name in the industry on as a guest at one point or another, and if there is a specific topic you want to learn about, you shouldn’t have a problem finding at least one episode dedicated to that in the archives. If you prefer to learn by listening instead of by reading, definitely check out this podcast.
Writing Quality – 5
Consistency – 5
Longevity – 5
Technical Depth – 5
Broad Usefulness – 5
Total Score: 5
The Microsoft Azure Blog
As one of the three major cloud providers, the Azure blog doesn’t focus exclusively on DevOps topics, but has a ton of news and information related to cloud computing in general and Azure services in particular. If you use Azure as your cloud provider, this is an especially good blog to follow and if it’s not, it’s always good to learn about what’s possible on other platforms.
Writing Quality – 5
Consistency – 5
Longevity – 4
Technical Depth – a
Broad Usefulness – 5
Total Score: 4.8
The Register
If you’re looking for more news than tutorials or documentation, The Register’s DevOps blog is for you. It’s heavily focused on industry news (with some of the snarkiest headlines I’ve ever seen) and has little in the way of tutorials. However, it is one of the best DevOps blogs I’ve found for keeping up with what’s going on in the industry from a broader business perspective.
Writing Quality – 5
Consistency – 5
Longevity – 5
Technical Depth – 3
Broad Usefulness – 5
Total Score: 4.6
Google Cloud DevOps and SRE Blog
As another of the big three cloud providers, it makes sense that Google also has a blog sharing their thoughts on DevOps. While many of the articles here are specific to Google Cloud services and offerings, they also have more general content and case studies.
Writing Quality – 5
Consistency – 4
Longevity – 4
Technical Depth – 4
Broad Usefulness – 5
Total Score: 4.4
DevOps.com
Besides having the canonical .com domain name, DevOps.com is a blog with extremely diverse content. With categories ranging from DevSecOps to Continuous Delivery to Leadership Suite to a DevOps-themed comic, there’s something for everyone here.
Writing Quality – 3
Consistency – 5
Longevity – 5
Technical Depth – 4
Broad Usefulness – 5
Total Score: 4.4
The Puppet Blog
As one of the original DevOps tools and the publisher of the annual State of DevOps report, Puppet is uniquely positioned to comment on happenings and new developments in DevOps. Their blog contains a wide range of content, from reports and case studies to webinars, all very well put together and detailed.
Writing Quality – 5
Consistency – 4
Longevity – 3
Technical Depth – 5
Broad Usefulness – 5
Total Score: 4.4
Code as Craft
The Etsy engineering blog, Code as Craft, has detailed posts about some of the challenges that the Etsy engineering team has had to take on as they scale as well as more general DevOps and engineering-focused articles. Because their articles are based on learnings that come out of running a large engineering team, they are an interesting look into how DevOps concepts are applied at a large and fast-moving organization.
Writing Quality – 5
Consistency – 4
Longevity – 4
Technical Depth – 5
Broad Usefulness – 4
Total Score: 4.4
The Docker Blog
Docker was one of the early tools that inspired and even enabled much of the other DevOps tooling available today. Their blog has been published very consistently since 2013 and has some good technical deep dives on Docker tooling and use cases. There are posts about other topics on this blog as well, but because it is mostly Docker-specific, I took off a couple of points for broad usefulness. However, if you use Docker or any tools that are based on Docker (which is very likely), there’s a lot to learn here.
Writing Quality – 4
Consistency – 5
Longevity – 5
Technical Depth – 4
Broad Usefulness – 3
Total Score: 4.2
The Atlassian DevOps Blog
Atlassian has been making developer and developer-adjacent tooling for years, and as part of that mission, has been shaping the industry. While many of the posts on their blog are Atlassian-specific, they do also have more general content.
Writing Quality – 4
Consistency – 4
Longevity – 5
Technical Depth – 4
Broad Usefulness – 4
Total Score: 4.2
