About the Authors

Chris Barbour is a practice leader at Taos Mountain, Inc. He specializes in IT automation and large-scale infrastructure and has been working with configuration management solutions in various forms since 2008. Chris has maintained and deployed a mix of Puppet and Puppet Enterprise in a number of large-scale multiplatform environments. In addition to his operational responsibilities, he provides training and professional guidance for consultants looking to learn Puppet or otherwise further their IT careers. Chris lives in the heart of Silicon Valley with his wife and son, and in his free time enjoys motorcycling, photography, and travel.

Jo Rhett is a network architect and DevOps engineer with 25 years of experience conceptualizing and delivering large-scale internet services. He focuses on creating automation and infrastructure to accelerate deployment and minimize outages. Jo has been using, promoting, and enhancing configuration management systems for more than 20 years. He builds improvements and plugins for Puppet, MCollective, Docker, Jenkins, AWS, and many other DevOps tools. He is the author of Learning Puppet 4 and Learning MCollective.