About the Reviewers

Mark Philips has had a varied career spanning Motor Manufacturer, Internet, Telco, and Finance industries over the last 17 years. Engineering for UNIX estates from a handful of hosts through to many thousands, Mark has strived to automate anything and everything that had to be carried out more than once. Discovering Puppet in early 2007 was a boon to achieving his idea of systems nirvana—simple centralized and automated configuration management.

Mark runs an IT consultancy company, VNTX Limited, specializing in UNIX installation, integration, automation, and performance tuning.

When he's not in front of a computer, Mark can be found out riding one of his bicycles—training for a race, or boring his ever patient wife talking about cycling.

Eric Stonfer is a 10 year veteran of systems administration, with an emphasis on automation and configuration systems, and has been using Puppet to manage thousands of servers for over 3 years. In his spare time Eric is an avid home brewer.