To get the most out of this book

Working knowledge of the public cloud or bare-metal infrastructure is useful. Working experience of Linux distributions and Python is required to follow the examples provided in the book. Some understanding of a software system running in production is needed for fully understanding the concepts discussed in the book.

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself or access the code via the GitHub repository (link available in the next section). Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying and pasting of code.