About the Author

Nikhil Pathania is currently practicing DevOps at Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy. He started his career as an SCM engineer and later moved on to learn various tools and technologies in the fields of automation and DevOps. Throughout his career, Nikhil has promoted and implemented Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery solutions across perse IT projects.
He enjoys finding new and better ways to automate and improve manual processes and help teams know more about their project's SDLC by bringing valuable metrics. He is also actively working on utilizing Elastic Stack and container technologies efficiently for DevOps.

In his spare time, Nikhil likes to read, write, and meditate. He is an avid climber and also hikes and cycles.

You can reach Nikhil on twitter at @otrekpiko.

First and foremost, my beautiful wife, Karishma, without whose love and support this book would not have been possible.
Great thanks to Deep Mehta who provided me with valuable feedback throughout the writing process. 
Special thanks to the following people who worked hard to make this book the best possible experience for the readers: Sharon Raj, Khushbu Sutar, and the whole Packt Publishing technical team working in the backend.
And finally, great thanks to the Jenkins community for creating such fantastic software.