About the Author

Thomas Uphill is an RHCA who has been using Puppet since version 0.24. He has been a system administrator for nearly 20 years, more than 10 of which have been with Red Hat Linux and its derivatives. He has presented tutorials on Puppet at LOPSA-East and has spoken at PuppetConf 2013. He enjoys teaching others how to use Puppet to automate as much system administration tasks as possible. When he's not at the Seattle Puppet Meetup, you can find him at http://ramblings.narrabilis.com.

I am very thankful to my friend and colleague Jo?ko Plazoni? for introducing me to Puppet and getting me started on this journey. I would like to thank my wife Priya Fernandes for putting up with the long nights and weekends it took to finish this book. Thanks to Nate Tade for his encouragement while I worked on this book, the rest of my team for trying my crazy ideas, and Shawn Foley for a few not-so-crazy ideas. Thanks to Theresa, David, and Ben for their support.