About the Author

James Denton lives with his beautiful wife, Amanda, and son, Wyatt, in San Antonio, Texas. He is an experienced IT professional with extensive experience in application networking technologies and OpenStack networking. He specializes in OpenStack for Rackspace in San Antonio, Texas. He is a Network Architect for the Rackspace Private Cloud team. He can be found on Twitter @jimmdenton and on Freenode IRC as busterswt.

I'd like to thank my wife, Amanda, for providing encouragement and patience throughout the writing of this book. In addition, I would like to thank my team at Rackspace for reviewing many rough drafts and providing excellent feedback.

Without OpenStack and Rackspace, the opportunity to write this book would not have been possible. A big thanks goes out to the OpenStack community for developing, and continuing to improve on, the product. It has been an amazing experience to be involved in this open source movement, and I look forward to the future.