About the author

Russ McKendrick is an experienced solution architect who has been working in IT and related industries for over 25 years. During his career, he has had varied responsibilities, from looking after an entire IT infrastructure to providing first-line, second-line, and senior support in both client-facing and internal teams for large organizations.

Russ supports open source systems and tools on public and private clouds at Node4 Limited, where he heads up the Open Source Solutions team.

I would like to thank my family and friends for their support and for being so understanding about all the time I have spent in front of the computer, writing. I would also like to thank my colleagues at Node4 and our customers for their kind words of support and encouragement throughout the writing process.