About the AuthorJeeva S. Chelladhurai has been working as a DevOps specialist at the IBM Global Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE) in India for the past 8 years. He has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry. In various capacities, he has technically managed and mentored diverse teams across the globe in envisaging and building pioneering telecommunication products. He specializes in DevOps and cloud solution delivery, with a focus on data center optimization, Software-defined Environments (SDEs), and distributed application development, deployment, and delivery using the newest Docker technology. Jeeva is also a strong proponent of agile methodologies, DevOps, and IT automation. He holds a masters degree in computer science from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University and a graduate certificate in project management from Boston University. He has been instrumental in crafting reusable assets for IBM solution architects and consultants in Docker-inspired containerization technology. Vinod Singh held various positions across development, architecture, and engagement with clients throughout his career. Currently, he is a senior cloud architect with IBMs cloud flagship offering Bluemix, supporting customers across the world. Vinods experience with networking and data communication spans software design, development, and testing. The cloud, cognitive computing, and Linux are his passions, and he feels cognitive computing is once again going to change the world. Vinod is a regular speaker at IBMs internal conferences, IEEE conferences, and technology meetups. Vinods latest day job revolves around IBM Bluemix, Kubernetes, Docker, IBM Watson and Amazon AWS. Pethuru Raj, PhD, has been working as the chief architect in Reliance Jio Cloud and previously worked as a cloud infrastructure architect in the IBM Global Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE), IBM India, Bangalore for four years. Prior to that, he worked as TOGAF-certified enterprise architecture (EA) consultant in Wipro Consulting Services (WCS) Division. He also had a fruitful stint as a lead architect in the corporate research (CR) division of Robert Bosch, Bangalore. He has gained more than 17 years of IT industry experience and 8 years of research experience. He finished the CSIR-sponsored PhD degree in Anna University, Chennai and continued the UGC-sponsored postdoctoral research in the department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Thereafter, he was granted a couple of international research fellowships (JSPS and JST) to work as a research scientist for 3.5 years in two leading Japanese universities. He has published more than 30 research papers in peer-reviewed journals such as IEEE, ACM, Springer-Verlag, and Inderscience. He has authored 7 books thus far and he focuses on some of the emerging technologies such as: * Software-defined Cloud Environments (SDCEs) * Big, Fast, Streaming and IoT Data Analytics * DevOps through Docker-enabled Containerization * Microservices Architecture (MSA) * Context-aware Computing * Edge / Fog and Cognitive Analytics * Blockchain Technology for IoT Data and Device Security * Smarter Cities Technologies and Tools