Richard Young - Azure Stack Hub Demystified: Building hybrid cloud, IaaS, and PaaS solutions

Building hybrid cloud, IaaS, and PaaS solutions

Richard Young

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To my wife, sons, and grandchildren, for their unwavering support

Richard Young has been working in IT for over 35 years and is currently a principal consultant in the professional services division of Lenovo Global Technologies, covering EMEA. He works closely with customers to assist them in their journey to the cloud with a focus on hybrid cloud, especially focused on Microsoft Azure. His role covers both the strategy and deployment of hybrid cloud using Microsoft Azure Stack Hub and Azure Stack HCI. He holds both MCSE and MCSA certifications for Azure. He holds the MCPD certification for .NET development for the cloud, from back when he was a developer. He has been involved in multiple deployments of Azure Stack Hub throughout Europe over the last few years. He is a husband, father, and grandfather.

I would like to thank my wife, Jackie, and my family, for giving me the encouragement to undertake the writing of this book as a first-time author. I would also like to thank the Packt editing team for their professionalism and dedication during this whole process, which made it a less daunting undertaking.

Jean-Benoit Paux has more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry, particularly in the areas of support engineering, Microsoft infrastructure consulting, and cloud architecture. He assists various clients in defining their Azure cloud strategy, building their cloud foundations, and implementing security controls. Over the last few years, he has also succeeded in applying his expertise by building hybrid architectures using Azure and Azure Stack portfolio products. As a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Jean-Benoit enjoys sharing his knowledge on different IT matters, including teaching Azure and Microsoft 365 courses.

I'd like to thank this book's author and Packt Publishing for the opportunity to review this book. It involved many good debates and energy to make this book. I would also like to thank the Microsoft Azure Stack support engineers and PM who I had the opportunity to work with, who taught me a lot about the internals, and sometimes worked days and nights with us to troubleshoot this wonderful product.