Acknowledgments

This book couldn’t have been written without the support, sacrifice, and patience of those closest to us. Special mention is due to Stephen Hazleton, whose tireless efforts with us to make Docker useful for our customers informed much of the book’s contents.

Several Docker contributors and staff were kind enough to review the book at different stages and provided much useful feedback, including the following people who read the book in manuscript form: Benoit Benedetti, Burkhard Nestmann, Chad Davis, David Moravec, Ernesto Cárdenas Cangahuala, Fernando Rodrigues, José San Leandro, Kirk Brattkus, Pethuru Raj, Scott Bates, Steven Lembark, Stuart Woodward, Ticean Bennett, Valmiky Arquissandas, and Wil Moore III.

Finally, this book also owes a great deal to the Manning editorial team, who went out of their way to push us into making the book not just good enough, but the best it could be. We hope the pride they took in their work rubbed off on us.

Ian Miell To Sarah, Isaac, and Rachel for putting up with the late-night coding, a father glued to a laptop screen, and the eternal “Docker this, Docker that, Docker blah, blah,” and to my parents for encouraging me from an early age to question the status quo. And buying me that Spectrum.

Aidan Hobson Sayers To Mona for the support and encouragement, my parents for their wisdom and motivating words, and my coauthor for that fateful “Has anyone tried this Docker thing?” e-mail.