Luca Floris  is a Cloud Technical Consultant in IBM EMEA.  Luca joined IBM 4 years ago as a graduate through the IBM  Graduate Scheme and he has 8 years of experience in IT,  graduating from Plymouth University with a degree in  Computer Science. His primary focus is containerization and  application modernization through IBM Cloud Private and  related technologies. He is well recognized as a technical focal  point for IBM Cloud Private from IBM Cloud Innovation Labs in  EMEA, and has written extensively about IBM Cloud Private on  Kubernetes. Rahul Gupta  is a Cloud Native Solutions Architect in IBM  Cloud Solutioning Centre in USA. Rahul is a IBM Certified  Cloud Architect with 14 years of professional experience in IBM  Cloud technologies, such as Internet of Things, Blockchain,  and Container Orchestration Platforms. Rahul has been a  technical speaker in various conferences worldwide. Rahul has  authored several IBM Redbooks publications about messaging,  mobile, and cloud computing. Rahul is a IBM Master Inventor  and also works on MQTT protocol in OASIS board for open  source specifications. Vasfi Gucer  is an IBM Redbooks Project Leader with the IBM  International Technical Support Organization. He has more  than 23 years of experience in the areas of cloud computing,  systems management, networking hardware, and software. He  writes extensively and teaches IBM classes worldwide about  IBM products. His focus has been on cloud computing for the  last three years. Vasfi is also an IBM Certified Senior IT  Specialist, Project Management Professional (PMP), IT  Infrastructure Library (ITIL) V2 Manager, and ITIL V3 Expert. Anil Patil  is a senior Solution Architect at IBM US. He is a  Certified Cloud Solution Architect and Solution Advisor -  DevOps with more than 18 years of IT experience in Cognitive  Solutions, IBM Cloud, Microservices, IBM Watson API, and  Cloud-Native Applications. His core experience is in  Microservices, AWS, Cloud Integration, API Development, and  Solution Architecture. He is currently a Lead Solution Architect  and Cloud Architect for various clients in North America. Anil  has been a Redbooks author and technical contributor for  various IBM material and blogs, such as Cognitive Solution,  IBM Cloud, API Connect, and Docker Container. Sanjay Singh  is a senior Software Engineer. He has worked  on various cloud products over 11 years of his career with IBM.  As a technical consultant and Lab Advocate he has been  engaged with customers in making their Cloud Adoption and  implementation successful. He has lead adoption of IBM Cloud  Private in one of the largest Telecom providers in India over  eight months of engagement. His core experience is in  Kubernetes, Openstack, AWS, Node.JS, JavaScript, Python,  and Scripting. He holds a Btech degree in Computer Science  from NIT Trichy (India).  Preface  xiii