About the reviewers

Mitesh Soni is an avid learner with 10 years of experience in the IT industry. He is an SCJP, SCWCD, VCP, IBM Urbancode, as well as IBM Bluemix-certified, and a certified Jenkins Engineer. He loves DevOps and cloud computing, and he also has an interest in programming in Java. He finds design patterns fascinating and believes that a picture is worth a thousand words. He occasionally contributes to the clean-clouds and eTutorials World websites.

He believes in the KISS principle. Yes, you read it right. The KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) principle states that simplicity should be a key goal in design and unnecessary complexity should be avoided. Hence, he follows the KISS principle in life.

Max Manders is a recovering PHP developer and former sysadmin who currently works as Principal Engineer (DevOps) at FanDuel, the leader in online Daily Fantasy Sports. Max enjoys discussing distributed systems, availability and scalability, infrastructure as code, continuous delivery, and automation. With experience of managing large-scale distributed system configuration with Puppet and Chef, Max has started exploring containerization with Docker and Kubernetes.

Max was a co-founder and organizer of Whisky Web, a Scottish conference for the web development and ops community. When he's not writing code or tinkering with the latest monitoring and operations tools, Max enjoys playing jazz and funk trombone. Max lives in Edinburgh with his wife Jo, their cats Ziggy and Maggie, and their hedgehog, Pickle.

Sami Rönkä has a background in software business and has been a keen advocate of DevOps for years. After years of hands-on specialist work, he has moved more into the business and management side and is currently transforming an MSP business into a more agile and development-oriented company using DevOps practices. He has also been reviewing other DevOps-guides for Packt.