Anyone have reading suggestions for an operationally minded infrastructure engineer who is paranoid about security and hates breaking production but still wants to take the IPv6 plunge?
For a quick overview of the process of making your infrastructure dual-stack (with an aim to eventually phase out IPv4); note that most of the burden is on your networking-equipment vendor to make this work, unless you make your layer-3 equipment in-house. So it's mostly a deployment challenge, rather than a development challenge. http://www.networkworld.com/article/2285078/tech-primers/ipv...
If I might recommend a good tunnel broker for allowing you to deploy IPv6 internally and get connectivity to the global v6 internet even without ISP support, take a look at Hurricane Electric.