Mastering Ansible
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About the Author
Jesse Keating is an accomplished Ansible user, contributor, and presenter. He has
been an active member of the Linux and open source communities for over 15 years.
He has rst-hand experience with a variety of IT activities, software development,
and large-scale system administration. He has presented at numerous conferences
and meet-ups, and he has written many articles on a variety of topics.
His professional Linux career started with Pogo Linux as a Lead Linux Engineer
handling many duties, including building and managing automated installation
systems. For 7 years, Jesse served at the Fedora Release Engineer as a senior software
engineer at Red Hat. In 2012, he joined Rackspace to help manage Rackspace's public
Cloud product, where he introduced the use of Ansible for the large-scale automation
and orchestration of OpenStack-powered Clouds. Currently, he is a senior software
engineer and the OpenStack release lead at Blue Box, an IBM company, where he
continues to utilize Ansible to deploy and manage OpenStack Clouds.
He has worked as technical editor on Red Hat Fedora and Enterprise Linux 4
Bible, A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4th Edition, Python:
Create-Modify-Reuse, and Practical Virtualization Solutions: Virtualization from
the Trenches. He has also worked as a contributing author on Linux Toys II,
and Linux Troubleshooting Bible. You can nd Jesse on Twitter using the handle
@iamjkeating, and nd his musings that require more than 140 characters
on his blog at https://derpops.bike.
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