About the author

IAIN FOULDS is a senior content developer at Microsoft, currently writing technical documentation for Azure container services, virtual machines, and scale sets. Previously, Iain was a premier field engineer with Microsoft for virtualization technologies such as Azure, Hyper-V, and System Center Virtual Machine Manager. With over 15 years of experience in IT, most of it in operations and services, Iain embraced virtualization early with VMware and has helped build and teach others about cloud computing for years.

Iain, originally from England, has lived in the United States for more than a decade and currently resides just outside of Seattle with his wife and two young children, to whom this book is dedicated. He is a fan of football (unfortunately called “soccer” where he lives) and also enjoys ice hockey and almost any form of motor racing. Outside of computing, Iain’s interests include performance and classic cars, aviation photography, and claiming to play the guitar. He’s also a big model train nerd, regularly attending and volunteering at shows and events throughout the Pacific Northwest.