Introduction

According to a survey by Forbes Magazine in July 2013, 59% of the CIOs surveyed say that enabling cloud infrastructure is their number one priority (http://www.forbes.com/sites/louiscolumbus/2013/07/01/cios-on-cloud-adoption-conquer-complexity-and-help-us-grow/). While cloud has been popular in the open source community for years, enterprises are only just begining to make the transition. This book will prepare you for the transition using the tools you are already familiar with.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been the leader in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for years. According to Gartner’s 2013 Magic Quadrant, which evaluated the top 15 IaaS vendors, AWS is 5 times the size of the next 14 cloud vendors combined (https://www.gartner.com/doc/2575815 ...

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