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 first-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 find Jesse on Twitter using the handle @iamjkeating, and find his musings that require more than 140 characters on his blog at https://derpops.bike.