Contributors
About the authors

Richard Bullington-McGuire is a software architect and DevOps practitioner with more than 28 years of professional experience in information technology. He has operated internet services continuously since 1995 when he established The Obscure Organization. He has used Docker to build, deploy, and run applications in production, including operating the Freezing Saddles winter cycling event since 2018. Richard is a member of the IEEE and the ACM. He holds 6 AWS certifications, including all of the Foundational, Associate, and Professional level certifications. He works at Modus Create, Inc. as director of engineering. You can find him on Twitter and GitHub at @obscurerichard. Richard lives in Arlington, VA, with his wife and four children.

I want to thank my wonderful wife, Patricia, and my children, for giving me the space and support I've needed to write this book, even while the COVID-19 global pandemic was raging around us. I'd also like to thank Jay Garcia for suggesting that I join this effort. The whole Packt editing team has helped this first-time book author immensely, but I'd like to give special thanks to Romy Dias who edited most of my work.

Andrew K. Dennis is a full stack and cybersecurity architect with over 17 years' experience who currently works for Modus Create in Reston, VA. He holds two undergraduate degrees in software engineering and creative computing and a master's degree in information security. Andy has worked in the US, Canada, and the UK in software engineering, e-learning, data science, and cybersecurity across his career, and has written four books on IoT, the Raspberry Pi, and supercomputing. His interests range from the application of pataphysics in computing to security threat modeling. Andy lives in New England and is an organizer of Security BSides CT.

I want to thank my wife, Megen, for her support during the writing of this book; the other authors for their collaboration and hard work; Modus Create for aiding me: and the other authors as well for helping to initiate the project; my parents for all their support over the years as my career in technology grew; and finally, a thank you to the Packt team for their edits and insights.

Michael Schwartz is a full stack software engineer, architect, and embedded engineer for Modus Create, with over 45 years' experience as a professional. He founded one of the first public ISPs in the SF Bay Area, Best Internet Communications, and an early internet advertising agency, MediaPlex. He was one of the early developers of video games, including the upright coin-operated machines and consoles. His most recent project is RoboDomo, a home automation system built around Node.js, Docker containers, MQTT, and React.js. Originally from Chicago, IL, Mike resides in the Palm Springs area of California.

I want to thank Jesus Garcia and Pat Sheridan for throwing the support of Modus Create behind this book project. I'd also like to thank my co-authors, Andy and Richard, who've made this the definitive book on Docker at this time.