About the reviewers

Andy McCrae works as a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat in the Multi-Architecture team. Andy began his career at Rackspace as a Linux systems administrator, after completing a master's in engineering, majoring in Computer Science at University College London (UCL). He specializes in deployment and operations automation using tools such as Ansible and Chef, as well as in distributed storage systems, specifically Swift (OpenStack Object Storage) and Ceph. Andy was the Project Technical Lead for the OpenStack-Ansible project for the Ocata and Pike cycles and has given talks at multiple international OpenStack events. Andy is currently a maintainer on the ceph-ansible project and was previously a core reviewer on the Chef-OpenStack project. Andy was also a technical reviewer on the third and fourth editions of the OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook, Packt Publishing.

Kevin Jackson is married and has three children. He has over 20 years experience working with hosted environments, and private and public clouds. He is an OpenStack specialist at Rackspace and has been working with OpenStack since the first release. Kevin has co-authored a number of OpenStack books, including the OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook.