Foreword

First and foremost, if you have this book in your hands, congratulations! You are part of the top talent pool in the IT industry, focusing on systems management and provisioning at scale using powerful automation tools.

I have been in the industry for more than 12 years, implementing and leading next generation platform architecture and engineering efforts in world-class enterprise data centers hosting tens of thousands of servers. Throughout my professional journey, I've had a chance to be part of many paradigm shifts, including virtualization, the cloud era, software-defined data centers, and the latest but not the least, infrastructure as a code.

It was during one of these paradigm shifts when I met the author of this book, Earl Waud. ...

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