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.

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.

Christian Ashby has a broad range of experience working with the architecture of Cloud environments - with every definition from "someone else’s data center" to serverless / no-ops public cloud and PaaS environments. With a background in large IT outsourcing designing scale-up compute and storage solutions, Christian has been focusing more and more on Cloud architectures and assisting his customers find their route to the Cloud and modern IT practices. OpenStack has always been one of the components of this customer journey, and Christian is pleased to see it move deeper into the Enterprise space with later releases, and hopes that this trend continues.

Stefano Canepa is an information and communication technology professional with more then 20 years of various experiences. Stefano’s main interest now is cloud computing with a special focus on OpenStack, its management, and centralized logging solutions. He started working as system administrator in one of the first internet service providers established in Italy. At that time, it was natural to install applications you needed from source code, so he learnt programming on Unix. He started looking after Windows systems and, at his new company, Stefano was involved in the deployment and administration of a huge network of Windows NT computers spread all over Italy. He continued his career moving to network design and testing. He then turned into a full time software developer, and for a while Stefano wrote applications to control medical devices. He moved to a new company and switched to write railways’ centralized traffic control GUI applications. After that experience, Stefano was hired as the system software engineer to manage clouds in a team of professionals coming from all over the world.

Ricky Donato is an NFV/SDN solutions architect, with a passion for open source and an unhealthy love for Costa coffee. In his 23 years in the industry, his technical experience has covered networking design, development, network security, and OpenStack.

Geoff Higginbottom is an OpenStack specialist architect at Rackspace, where he is responsible for designing OpenStack Clouds for customers. Prior to Rackspace, Geoff was the technical cofounder, CTO, and cloud architect at a boutique cloud consultancy, where he designed numerous public and private cloud deployments. Geoff’s technical career started with real-time computer systems while serving in the Royal Navy as a computer engineer in the 90s, and it has now spanned to almost every facet of IT. Geoff is a keen sailor, scuba diver, motorcyclist, and amateur photographer, and his ambition is to one day sail around the world!

Andrew McCrae works as a software developer at Rackspace, in the Rackspace Private Cloud team, working specifically on Ceph storage solutions. He was the project technical lead for the OpenStack-Ansible project for the Ocata and Pike cycles. Andy began his career in 2007 at Rackspace, as a Linux systems administrator, after completing a masters in Engineering, majoring Computer Science at University College London (UCL). Andy specializes in distributed storage, specifically Swift (OpenStack Object Storage), and Ceph, as well as in deployment automation using tools such as Ansible and Chef. He was previously a core reviewer on the Chef-OpenStack project. Andy was also a reviewer on the third edition of OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook, Packt Publishing.

Wojciech Sciesinski is an IT professional with 15 years of experience in a broad range of technologies, namely Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Exchange Server, PowerShell, Linux, automation, virtualization, and cloud-related tools, and roles, particularly, a support engineer, architect, and developer. Wojciech is curious about new things, especially when they are open source and complicated enough to not be boring.

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