About the Author

Pierre MAVRO lives in Joinville-le-Pont (a suburb of Paris). He's an open source software lover and has been working with Linux for more than 10 years now. Today, he works as a Senior DevOps Engineer at Red Hat / eNovance, where he designs and implements solutions for the Web and personal clouds (OpenStack). During the last few years, he has been designing high-availability infrastructures with performance tuning for a high-frequency trading company. He has also built geoclusters and developed tools to fit high-availability requirements for financial companies. He has worked on resolving issues on open source software for the French government. He has also provided training to several IT professionals on subjects such as Linux and MySQL/MariaDB.

I would really like to thank my wife and daughter, who encouraged and helped me to find the time to write this book. I would also like to thank my friend Joffrey and my colleague Dimitri for reviewing the technical part of the book. A big thanks goes to Packt Publishing for approaching me to write this book. And to finish, thanks to the employees of Packt Publishing I worked with (Subho, Neha, and Mohammed); thanks for showing patience. I would also like to thank the technical reviewers Daniel Parnell, P. R. Karthik, Emilien Kenler, and David "DaviXX" CHANIAL, who provided their valuable support and helped me enhance the quality of the content.

Writing this book was my first experience in editing; it was not an easy task, and therefore, thanks a lot to all who helped me in different ways to do so!