About the Author

Karan Singh is an IT expert and tech evangelist, living with his beautiful wife, Monika, in Finland. He holds a bachelor's degree, with honors, in computer science, and a master's degree in system engineering from BITS, Pilani. Apart from this, he is a certified professional for technologies such as OpenStack, NetApp, Oracle Solaris, and Linux.

Karan is currently working as a System Specialist of Storage and Cloud, for CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd., focusing all his energies on developing IaaS cloud solutions based on OpenStack and Ceph, and building economic multi-petabyte storage systems using Ceph.

Karan possesses a rich skill set and has strong work experience in a variety of storage solutions, cloud technologies, automation tools and Unix systems. He is also the author of the very first book on Ceph, titled Learning Ceph, published in 2015.

Karan devotes a part of his time to R&D and learning new technologies. When not working on Ceph and OpenStack, Karan can be found working with emerging technologies or automating stuffs. He loves writing about technologies and is an avid blogger at www.ksingh.co.in. You can reach him on Twitter @karansingh010, or by e-mail at <karan_singh1@live.com>.

I'd like to thank my wife, Monika, for preparing delicious food while I was writing this book. Kiitos MJ, you are a great chef, Minä rakastan sinua.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank my company, CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd., and all my colleagues with whom I have worked and made memories. CSC, you are an amazing place to work, kiitos.

I'd also like to express my thanks to the vibrant Ceph community and its ecosystem for developing, improving, and supporting Ceph.

Finally, my sincere thanks to the entire Packt Publishing team, and also to the technical reviewers, for their state-of-the-art work during the course of this project.