After almost two years of writing, editing, and rewriting my book, I've finally completed the first edition of Ansible for DevOps , and it's available for sale on Amazon, LeanPub, and iTunes!

The book is 400 pages long, just shy of 80,000 words, and was a huge effort. It's such a relief to finally have it 'out the door', though publishing-as-I-write has been a great experience. Pre-first-edition, I've already sold over 2,200 copies of Ansible for DevOps on LeanPub!

Here are a few blog posts from Server Check.in where I describe more of the publication process:

• 6 Lessons learned self-publishing my first book
• $25K in book sales, and I'm almost ready to publish
• Writing on LeanPub - $0.21 per word
• Self-publishing my first technical book on LeanPub

If you've ever thought about writing your own book and self-publishing, give LeanPub a try! It's the best publishing platform for most types of books nowadays. Even if you want to go a more traditional route, you can self-pub with other services like CreateSpace or Lulu!