About the Author

Kyle Rankin is a long-time systems administrator with a particular focus on infrastructure security, architecture, automation, and troubleshooting. In addition to this book he is the author of DevOps Troubleshooting (Addison-Wesley, 2012), The Official Ubuntu Server Book, Third Edition (Prentice Hall, 2013), and Knoppix Hacks, Second Edition (O’Reilly, 2007), among others. Rankin is an award-winning columnist for Linux Journal magazine, and he chairs the Purism advisory board. He speaks frequently on open-source software and security, including at O’Reilly Security Conference, CactusCon, SCALE, OSCON, LinuxWorld Expo, Penguicon, and a number of Linux Users’ Groups.

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