Randall Smith is a senior systems administrator at Adams State University. He has been administering Windows, Linux, and BSD systems since 1999.
He has been active in helping other sysadmins solve problems online and off. He has presented at the Colorado Higher Ed Computing Organization and Educause conferences on topics including Linux KVM and Ceph.
In his spare time, Randall streams Let's Play gaming videos at Music Free Gaming on YouTube and Twitch.
I would like to thank my family for their support and understanding as I disappeared into my bedroom for hours at a time to write this book. I would like to thank Adams State University for providing servers used for testing and the opportunity to play with really cool software such as Docker. Finally, I would like to thank the reviewers and everyone at Packt who helped make this book possible.
I want to give a special shout-out to all of the developers and companies who have open-sourced the tools described in this book. You all make it so much much easier for the rest of us to get the job done. Thank you all so much.