Aric Renzo is a DevOps engineer based in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is a fan of all things geeky and open source. He has experience working on many open source and free software project deployments for clients based on OpenStack, Ansible, Docker, Chef, SaltStack, and Kubernetes. Aric is a member of the Ansible community and teaches courses on basic and advanced Ansible concepts. His past projects include work on data center deployments, network infrastructure automation, MongoDB NoSQL database architecture, and designing highly available OpenStack environments. Aric is a fan of anything to do with DevOps, automation, and making his workflow more efficient.
Aric is a lifelong geek and a graduate of Penn State University in the information sciences and technology program. He is married to Ashley Renzo, an incredibly beautiful and talented science teacher in Gaston County, North Carolina.
Dedicated to the love of my life, Ashley Renzo; without her unending love and encouragement, this book would never have been written. Also to my dearest friends and family who have prayed for me, advised me, and shared their amazing wisdom with me throughout this project. I am so blessed to have these amazing people in my life.