Deploying OpenStack

Acknowledgments

In general, I would like to thank the entire OpenStack community that gathers on the #openstack IRC channel, mail aliases, and forums. The help and encouragement from hoards of people I might never meet face-to-face has been of immeasurable value. Thank you.

More specifically, I would like to thank many people for their help both in the past and the present that led me to this place:

• A special thanks to Josh Kearney for collaborating with me on my first Nova blueprint, as well as technically reviewing this book.

• Jay Pipes, for walking me through my first halting few commits and his leadership of Glance.

• Vishvananda Ishaya, for generally being a fountain of cloud knowledge and for his technical leadership of the Nova project.

• Anne Gentle, for spearheading the awesome OpenStack wiki and documentation.

• The people at Cloudscaling, who have been helping customers around the world deploy OpenStack clouds. A special thanks to Francesco Paolo and Andrew Shafer for their support.

• Brian Pepple, for his technical review of the book, as well as his introduction to open source development.

• Diego Parrilla and the team at StackOps, for access to their distribution and for their technical review of the book.

• The fine people at Spark and Associates, especially Joon Lee, Nick Lee, and Sung Park.

• Shlomo Swidler, for insights into cloud infrastructures at levels above where I usually contemplate.

• Dan Sanderson, who unlocked the riddle of using Scrivener, DocBook, Python, and subversion in harmony ...