Hi there 👋 , I'm Russ McKendrick
I am an experienced DevOps practitioner and system administrator with a passion for automation and containers. I have been working in IT and related industries for the better part of 25 years. During my career, I have had varied responsibilities in many different sectors, ranging from looking after an entire IT infrastructure to providing first-line, second-line, and senior support in both client-facing and internal teams for small and large organisations.
I work almost exclusively with Linux, using open-source systems and tools across both dedicated hardware and virtual machines hosted in public and private clouds at Node4, where I am the Practice Manager of SRE & DevOps.
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In my spare time, I have written and contributed to eleven books "Monitoring Docker", "Extending Docker", "Docker Bootcamp", "Mastering Docker - Second Edition", "Kubernetes for Serverless Applications", "Mastering Docker - Third Edition", "Learn Ansible" and have contributed to "Docker High Performance - Second Edition", "Mastering Docker - Fourth Edition", "The Kubernetes Bible" "Infrastructure as Code for Beginners" and which are all available now and are published by Packt Publishing. Also, "Monitoring and Management With Docker and Containers", which was published by The New Stack.
I also buy way too many records.