Stuart Fordham is a networking engineer who focuses on security and DevOps. He is CCIE #49337 (Routing and Switching), along with other qualifications such as CCDP, CEH, RHCSA, and MCSE. He has also been a Cisco Champion for 2017 and has authored a series of networking books. He is the network manager for a leading global Communication-as-a-Service company and has worked for hedge funds, the government, and the National Health Service.
First and foremost, I would like to thank my lovely wife. Without her encouragement and inspirational guidance (like saying “You’d be an idiot if you didn’t write it”), I would have never written this book.Secondly, I would like to thank Michael Yandulov and Louie Liang for helping me out while writing this book. I would also like to thank the two people who helped them help me.A big thanks goes to my good buddies Muhammad Rafi and Vijay AR for their invaluable help in editing this book.Finally, I’d like to thank the team at Packt Publishing for giving me the opportunity to write this book and their support while doing so.