About the Authors
Kevin Jackson is married with three children. He is an experienced IT professional
working with small businesses to online enterprises. He has extensive experience of various
flavors of Linux and Unix. He works from home in Southport, UK, specializing in OpenStack
for Rackspace covering the International market for the Big Cloud Solutions team. He can
be found on twitter @itarchitectkev. He also authored the first edition of OpenStack
Cloud Computing Cookbook, Packt Publishing.
I'd like to dedicate this book to my mum and dad who have had to deal
with a tough six months, and thank my wife, Charlene, for her continued
support through this second edition—it has been a bigger piece of work than
expected! I extend a special thank you as well to my co-author, Cody Bunch,
for helping the continued success of this book, and the immense work the
tech editors have done. I also want to thank some great people in Rackspace
and the OpenStack community that always help keep things moving in the
right direction: Florian Otel, Atul Jha, Niki Acosta, Scott Sanchez, Jim Curry,
as well as the folk at the OpenStack Foundation—and a whole host of other
people I've had the pleasure to cross paths with—especially those that have
helped me with any issues such as Endre Karlson.
