Wale Soyinka - Linux Administration

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This book is dedicated to everyone who has contributed to open source technologies and ideals in one form or another. Without you, we would have nothing to write about.

Wale Soyinka is a system administrator, a DevOps/SecOps aficionado, an open source evangelist, and hacker.

He is also the author of several Linux, network, and Windows administration books, including Linux Administration: A Beginners Guide, Wireless Network Administration: A Beginners Guide, and Advanced Linux Administration.

When he is not marveling at his own culinary creations, Wale participates in discussions, projects, and ventures, usually focused on promoting and showcasing open source technologies and culture.

Buki Adeniji is an AWS cloud infrastructure consultant and seasoned telephony and telecomms professional who is extremely passionate about cloud computing, Linux, VoIP, and Asterisk, and has many global deployments under his belt. Buki has experience building and managing high-availability carrier-grade VoIP platforms and production infrastructure. He has led global teams that managed mission-critical cloud-based services, achieving 99.99 percent (four nines) service availability. Being a lifetime learner with advanced degrees in Telecomms, Business, and Project Management, as well as a number of AWS certifications, Bukis goal is to continue to excel at the boundaries of technology and innovation by using principles of ethnography and design thinking to develop technical solutions that address current and next-generation business needs. Above all, he is passionate about converting complex concepts and procedures into simple, concise, and executable steps. Buki currently resides in the Bay Area, where he is a passionate family man, as well as an active maker who participates in building and racing DIY self-driving model cars.

David Lane is a DevOps/SRE manager with 30 years of experience in open source solutions development and implementation for the government, corporations, and associations. He discovered Linux via the initial Slackware distribution in the late 1990s and has never looked back. Today, David helps companies transition to DevOps methodologies from traditional software development practices with open source tooling. When he is not helping companies, he is an amateur radio operator and emergency coordinator for ARES, where he espouses open source solutions for Software Defined Radio (SDR) and other methods of communication during a communications emergency.

I would like to thank Wendy Rinaldi, my editor, David Lane, Emily Walters, Patty Mon, Bart Reed, Tricia Lawrence, Claire Yee, and the McGraw-Hill crew for the magic that they do. Hats off to the folks at Cenveo for carrying us across the finish line.

I would never have gone far on this journey without the genius/work of thousands of strangers who contribute to FOSS as well the groundwork of individuals like Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman. Thank you! Many thanks to Daniel A. for that first RedHat CD, the Berkeley UNIX Crew, Gene Schultz, Buki Adeniji, and Steve Shah for his foundational work.

I would like to thank Eldmar for my many adventures. I thank my mom and dad, my uncles, aunts, brothers, sisters, cousins, and my Bimpe. I am grateful to my friends for the gift of knowing them. I am forever thankful to Indian Baby and Hiromi who do little things that mean everything to me.