About the Author

Joseph Hall has been working with SaltStack for a very long time. His first commit was on March 14, 2011, making him the second contributor to the Salt codebase. At the time his Python skills weren't very good, but writing Salt modules made them better. He has written a number of Salt modules and is planning to write many more. He has also written Mastering SaltStack, Packt Publishing.

I would like to thank my beautiful and wonderful wife Nat for putting up with me for two books and helping me keep my sanity. I would like to thank Merwyn D'Souza, Reshma Raman, and everyone else that I've worked with at Packt for just being so awesome. I would also like to thank Colton Meyers for introducing me to Packt, Mike Place and C. R. Oldham for providing technical review for this book, and Tom Hatch for creating this amazing piece of software.