To get the most out of this book

This book is a healthy combination of theory and hands-on. The reason for this is that theory is great, but if you don’t know how to implement it, it’s not going to be much use to you in production. To follow along with this book, you should have access to the major clouds, a few VMs, and perhaps a few dollars to spend on the environments.

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