About the Authors

Vaibhav Kohli at present is working in VMware's R&D Department and earlier taught computer engineering for a year at the esteemed University of Mumbai. He works for the office of the CTO, VMware IoT (Internet of Things) project. He has published many research papers in leading journals, IEEE transactions, and has filed patents at VMware on container technology. One of his big data projects has won the top prize at the national-level project showcase event. He has conducted workshops, hackathons, training sessions, and trade shows in many countries and is a reputed & established speaker at conferences on IoT and Docker technology. He is an active open source code contributor, repository manager and has also published many online Docker & Kubernetes tutorials. He has helped many customers and organizations to understand cloud-native apps, DevOps model and migrate to micro-service architecture. He has also recently published a book on Docker Networking.

Vaibhav manages and leads various meetup groups across India on the latest cutting-edge Docker and Kubernetes technologies.

First and foremost, I would like to thank God for providing me the gift of writing. I dedicate this book to my mom & dad, Kamni Kohli & Ashok K Kohli, who have supported me in everything I have ever done. A special thanks to all my mentors who helped shape me into the person that I am…

Rajdeep Dua has over 18 years of experience in the Cloud and Big Data space. He has worked extensively on Cloud Infrastructure and Machine Learning related projects as well evangelized these stacks at Salesforce, Google, VMWare. Currently, he leads Developer Relations team at Salesforce India. He also works with the Machine Learning team at Salesforce.

He has been nominated by Docker as a Docker Captain for his contributions to the community. His contributions to the open source community are in the following projects: Docker, Kubernetes, Android, OpenStack, and Cloud Foundry. He also has teaching experience in Cloud and Big Data at IIIT Hyderabad, ISB, IIIT Delhi, and College of Engineering Pune.

Rajdeep did his MBA in IT and Systems from Indian Institute of Management Lucknow, India, and BTech from Thapar University, Patiala, India. You can reach him on Twitter at @rajdeepdua.

John Wooten is the founder and CEO of CONSULTED, a global open source cloud consultancy that designs secure, succinct, and sustainable cloud architectures. As a leading cloud solutions architect and open technology strategist, John has deep and applicable real-world experience in designing, testing, deploying, and managing public, private, and hybrid cloud systems for both enterprise and government. His primary technical proficiencies include Linux systems administration, OpenStack clouds, and Docker containers. As an open source activist, John is committedly passionate and works extensively within a broad range of open source projects and communities. His latest Internet project is as the founder and maintainer of ?ppenSourced (www.?ppensourced.com), a leading repository and defining resource on open source projects and applications. Otherwise, he is a self-proclaimed beach bum in search of the next surfable wave or is hiking and camping in remote locations.