Neependra Khare - Docker Cookbook

Neependra Khare is currently working as a principal performance engineer in Red Hat's system design and engineering team. He has more than 11 years of IT experience. Earlier, he worked as a system administrator, support engineer, and filesystem developer. He loves teaching. He has conducted a few corporate training sessions and taught full semester courses. He is also a co-organizer of the Docker Meetup Group, in Bangalore, India.

He lives with his wife and two-year-old daughter in Bangalore, India. His Twitter handle is @neependra and his personal website is http://neependra.net/. He has also created a website for the book, which you can visit at http://dockercookbook.github.io/.

I would like to thank my parents who fought all odds and made me the person I am today. My wife, Kanika, has been the first and best support for this book. She took care of our daughter, Navya, when I was away writing this book.

It has been a bigger piece than expected, as new features in Docker and the ecosystems around it were evolving very fast. I have learned a lot during the process and the Docker community (blogs, IRC, mailing list, and meet ups) has been of great help.

I am thankful to all the reviewers of the book, who gave their valuable time to go through the content, pointed out my mistakes, and provided me with great suggestions.

I would also like to thank my current employer who gave me some time to work on this book and my coworker Jeremy Eder (@jeremyeder) from whom I learned a lot.

Scott Collier is a senior principal system engineer in the systems design and engineering team at Red Hat. He is currently focused on product integration for anything that has to do with containers. He is a Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) with over 18 years of experience in IT.

He was also a technical reviewer on The Docker Book .

I would like to say thanks to Neependra for giving me the opportunity to collaborate on this book. It was a pleasure! I'd also like to thank my wife, Laura, for giving me the weekends to do this review.

Julien Duponchelle is a French engineer. He is a graduate of Epitech. During his work experience, he contributed to several open source projects and focused on tools, which make the work of IT teams easier.

After he directed the educational area at ETNA, a French IT school, he has accompanied several start-ups as a lead backend engineer and participated in many significant and successful fund raising events (Plizy and Youboox).

I would like to warmly thank, Malig, my girlfriend, for her benevolence and great patience at the time when I was working on this book or on open source projects in general, over so many evenings.

Allan Espinosa is an active open source contributor to various distributed system tools such as Docker and Chef. He maintains several Docker images for popular open source software that were popular before the official release from the upstream open source groups themselves.

He completed his master's of science in computer science from the University of Chicago. There, he worked on scaling data-intensive applications across supercomputing centers in the United States.

I would like to thank my wife, Kana, for the continuous support that allowed me to spend significant time with this review project.

Vishnu Gopal has a degree in Human-Computer Interaction from University College London, and was a part of the team that built SlideShare, which was then acquired by LinkedIn. He has picked up a variety of skills in his career, from having worked as a software engineer to architecting products that have served millions of users a day. He blogs at http://vishnugopal.com and still likes to be known by his GitHub profile at http://github.com/vishnugopal.

I would like to thank my wife, Uma, for her smiles and constant distractions that keep me sane.