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Published inNov 2017

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ISBN-139781788397605

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Wasim Ahmed

About the Reviewers

Nicolas Ledez has been working as a system administrator since 2000. He has been in big businesses such as Orange (a French telecom company) and in small organizations too. His skills are in DevOps, Linux, Ruby, Python, Ansible, Chef, Saltstack, and others. Currently, he is a DevOps architect at Cozy Cloud. You can find him on the internet with the pseudonym nledez.

Jorge Moratilla Porras has a bachelor's degree in computer science and has been working for internet companies since 1998. He has been working as a contractor for companies such as Sun Microsystems and Oracle. His passions are teaching and improving workloads using automation techniques. He has been working as a Sun Microsystems certified instructor and field engineer for several years. He has a large background working with products such as Sun Solaris, Linux, LDAP services, and CheckPoint. Recently, he has been working with configuration management products such as Puppet and Chef on his assignments and has been taking part in Madrid DevOps (a group of technicians devoted to continuous deployment and DevOps culture) as coordinator. He promotes the adoption of a culture of continuous improvement in enterprise and startups as the baseline to do great things. You can meet him at talks and hangouts that he organizes in the community.

He has collaborated as a reviewer on other Packt titles as well:

Configuration Management with Chef-Solo by Naveed ur Rahman
Proxmox Cookbook by Wasim Ahmed

I would like to thank my wife, Nuria, and sons, Eduardo and Ruben, for being so understanding and supportive while I was reviewing this book. Also, I would like to thank my dear mom, Milagros, and dad, Toñi, who put in all their effort to give me an education. Finally, I would also like to thank all those who have contributed to my personal and professional development through the years.

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Wasim Ahmed

Wasim Ahmed, born in Bangladesh and now a citizen of Canada, is a veteran of the IT world. He first came into close contact with computers in 1992 and never looked back. Wasim has a deep understanding of networks, virtualization, big data storage, and network security. By profession, Wasim is the CEO of a global IT support and cloud service provider based in Calgary, Alberta. He serves many companies and organizations through his company on a daily basis. Wasim's strength comes from his experience, which comes from learning and serving continually. Wasim strives to find the most effective solution at the most competitive price. He has built over 20 enterprise production virtual infrastructures using Proxmox and the Ceph storage system. Wasim and his team are notorious for not simply accepting a technology based on its description alone, but putting it through rigorous testing to check its validity. Any new technology that his company provides goes through months of continuous testing before it is accepted. Proxmox made the cut superbly.
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