Chelladhurai Jeeva S. - Learning Docker: optimize the power of Docker to run your applications quickly and easily

Pethuru Raj , PhD, works as a cloud architect at the IBM Global Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE) in Bangalore, India. He completed his CSIR-sponsored PhD degree at Anna University, Chennai, and continued his UGC-sponsored postdoctoral research at the Department of Computer Science and Automation of IISc, Bangalore. Thereafter, he was granted a couple of international research fellowships (JSPS and JST) to work as a research scientist for 3 years at two leading Japanese universities.

Pethuru has contributed to a number of high-quality technology books that are edited by internationally acclaimed professionals. In association with another IBMer, he has recently submitted the complete manuscript for a book called Smart Cities: the Enabling Technologies and Tools , to be published by the CRC Press in the USA in May 2015. He has collaborated with a few established authors to publish a book called High-Performance Big Data Analytics , which will be published by Springer-Verlag, UK, in 2015. He maintains an IT portal at http://www.peterindia.net, and his LinkedIn profile can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterindia.

Jeeva S. Chelladhurai has been working as a technical project manager at the IBM Global Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE) in India for the last 8 years. He has more than 18 years of experience in the IT industry. In various capacities, he has technically managed and mentored diverse teams across the globe in envisaging and building pioneering telecommunication products. He specializes in cloud solution delivery, with a focus on data center optimization, software-defined environments (SDEs), and distributed application development, deployment, and delivery using the newest Docker technology. Jeeva is also a strong proponent of Agile methodologies, DevOps, and IT automation. He holds a master's degree in computer science from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University and a graduation certificate in project management from Boston University. He has been instrumental in crafting reusable assets for IBM solution architects and consultants in Docker-inspired containerization technology.

Vinod Singh is a lead architect for IBM's cloud computing offerings. He has more than 18 years of experience in the cloud computing, networking, and data communication domains. Currently, he works for IBM's cloud application services and partner marketplace offerings. Vinod has worked on architecting, deploying, and running IBM's PaaS offering (BlueMix) on the SoftLayer infrastructure cloud. He also provides consultancy and advisory services to clients across the globe on the adoption of cloud technologies. He is currently focusing on various applications and services on the IBM Marketplace/BlueMix/SoftLayer platform. He is a graduate engineer from the National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, and completed his master's degree at BITS, Pilani.

About the Reviewers

Shashikant Bangera is a DevOps architect with 16 years of IT experience. He has vast exposure to DevOps tools across the platform, with core expertise in open source. He has helped his customers adopt DevOps practice and implemented Enterprise DevOps for them and has also contributed to many open sources platforms, such as DevOps Publication. He has designed an automated on-demand environment with a set of open source tools and also an environment booking tool, which is available on GitHuB. His Twitter handle is @shzshi.

Sergei Vizel is a senior software engineer at Modera (modera.org). He is a full-stack web application developer with more than 10 years of impressive experience. He is a firm believer of the value and power of open source software and contributes to projects on GitHub. Sergei has published numerous pieces of open source code of his own. You can learn more about him and contact him on GitHub via https://github.com/cravler.

Baohua Yang is a research scientist on cloud-computing-related technologies at IBM. He is a contributor to many open source communities such as OpenStack, OpenvSwitch, Docker, and OpenDaylight. He is also a TPC member and a reviewer of a number of international conferences and journals.

Baohua's interests mainly include system and application architecture, performance optimization, and security issues in cloud networking and distributed systems, especially in emerging technologies such as cloud computing, SDN, and NFV. He has written many technical books and articles to introduce and analyze these techniques. He loves open source technologies and enjoys designing and implementing efficient systems with elegant architecture.

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