This book is for Ops and DevOps engineers who would like to use Go to develop their own DevOps tooling or integrate custom features with DevOps tools such as Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, HashiCorp Packer, and Terraform. Experience with some type of programming language, but not necessarily Go, is necessary to get started with this book.
John Doak is the principal manager of Layer 1 Reliability Engineering at Microsoft. John led the development of the Azure Data Explorer and Microsoft Authentication Library Go SDKs. Previously, he was a Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Google. As part of network engineering, he created many of their first network automation systems. John led the migration of that group from Python to Go, developing Go training classes that have been taught around the world. He was a pivotal figure in transforming the network team to a network/systems group that integrated with SRE. Prior to that, he worked for Lucasfilm in video games and film. You can find his musings on Go/SRE topics and his Go classes on the web.
David Justice is the Principal Software Engineer Lead for the Azure K8s Infrastructure and Steel Thread teams that maintain a variety of CNCF and Byte Code Alliance projects. He is a maintainer of Cluster API Provider Azure and contributor to Cluster API. Prior to that, David was the technical assistant to the Azure CTO where he was responsible for Azure cross-group technical strategy and architecture. Early on at Microsoft, he was a Program Manager leading Azure SDKs and CLIs where he transitioned all Azure services to describe themselves using OpenAPI specifications in GitHub, and established automations to generate Azure reference docs, SDKs, and CLIs. Prior to Microsoft, David was the CTO of a mobile CI/CD SaaS called CISimple