Contributors

About the authors

Kevin Jackson is married and has three children. He is an IT professional with over 20 years of experience, working with businesses and enterprises of all sizes at Rackspace, as an OpenStack and private cloud specialist. Kevin has been working with OpenStack since the first release, and he has extensive experience of various flavors of Linux, Unix, and hosting environments. Kevin authored the first edition of this book, and coauthored the second and third editions. Kevin also coauthored OpenStack Architecture Design Guide, OpenStack Foundation, during a 5-day book sprint in California. He also regularly speaks at OpenStack community events.

Cody Bunch is a principal architect in the Rackspace Private Cloud group, based out of San Antonio, Texas. Cody has been working with OpenStack since early 2012, coauthored the second edition of this book, and also coauthored OpenStack Security Guide, OpenStack Foundation. Cody has extensive experience with virtualized and cloud environments in variously sized enterprises and hosting environments.

Egle Sigler is an OpenStack Foundation board member and a principal architect in the Rackspace Private Cloud group, based out of San Antonio, Texas. Egle holds an MS degree in computer science. She started her career as a software developer and still has a soft spot for all the people who write, test, and deploy code, since she has had the chance to do all of these tasks throughout her career. Egle dreams about a day when writing, testing, and deploying code will be a seamless and easy process—bug and frustration free for all. Egle believes that knowledge should be shared and has tried to do this by writing this book, giving talks and workshops at conferences, and blogging.

I would like to thank my husband and daughter for their unwavering support and love. Roy and Elena, you make everything better! I ask for forgiveness from my friends and family, who didn’t get to talk to me very much while I was working on this book.

OpenStack developers, quality engineers, operators, users, and documentation writers, thank you all for making OpenStack better each day!

Kevin, Cody, and James, thank you for bringing me along on this adventure! I cannot believe how much quality work was put into this book.

Technical reviewers, thank you for volunteering hundreds of hours to review everything.

Reviewers and editors from Packt, thank you for your prompt communication and constant feedback. Rackers, thank you for your advice and guidance. Lastly, thanks to Rackspace for supporting my writing endeavors.

James Denton is a principal architect at Rackspace with over 15 years of experience in systems administration and networking. He has a bachelor’s degree in Business Management with a focus in Computer Information Systems from Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. He is currently focused on OpenStack operations and support within the Rackspace Private Cloud team. James is the author of the Learning OpenStack Networking (Neutron), first and second editions, as well as OpenStack Networking Essentials both by Packt Publishing.

I’d like to thank my wife, Amanda, for providing time, encouragement, and patience throughout the writing of this book. I would also like to thank my team at Rackspace for providing valuable feedback and experience.

Without NASA, Rackspace, and countless other contributors to OpenStack, none of this would have been possible. To the developers, operators, and users of OpenStack I say, "Thank you!"

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