About

About Cody Bunch

Cody Bunch is a Private Cloud / Virtualization Architect, VMware vExpert, and VMware VCP from San Antonio, TX. Cody has authored or co-authored best-selling books on OpenStack and VMware. He also frequently speaks at industry events and local user groups.

Writing

Besides blogging, Cody has taken on longer-form projects as well. Specifically around OpenStack and automation:

• OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook 4th Edition
• OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook 3rd Edition
• OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook 2nd Edition
• OpenStack: Building a Cloud Environment
• OpenStack Security Guide
• Automating vSphere with VMware vCenter Orchestrator

Tech Editing

Along with writing, Cody also performs technical editing and reviews:

• Puppet Best Practices (Barbour, Rhett)
• DevOps with OpenShift (Picozzi, Hepburn, O’Connor)
• BGP in the Data Center (Dutt)
• OpenStack Networking Essentials (Denton)
• OpenStack Troubleshooting (Campbell)
• VMware vCloud Director Cookbook (Langenhan)
• Managing VMware Infrastructure with Windows PowerShell (Rottenberg)
• VMware VI and vSphere SDK: Managing the VMware Infrastructure and vSphere (Jin)

Speaking

Cody frequently speaks at user groups and other industry events:

• Atlanta VMUG UserCon 2017: Containers: Beyond the hype
• Interop Las Vegas 2016: Batman is not a career strategy
• Boston VMUG 2016: Automation, you’re doing it wrong
• OpenStack Summit, Paris 2014: ZeroVM
• VTUG Winter Warmer 2014 (Here)
• #vBrownBag at VMworld 2014: Revenge of GhettoSAN
• #vBrownBag at VMworld 2014: OpenStack on Raspberry Pi
• Portland VMware User Conference (Here)
• OpenStack Summit, Portland 2013: Cinder & Quantum
• OpenStack Summit, Portland 2013: PCI-DSS Readiness
• OpenStack Summit, Portland 2013: Ecosystem
• OpenStack Summit, San Diego 2012: Shared Storage, Nova & Cinder
• 2012: Wisconsin vMUG User Conference (Here)
• 2012: North Carolina vMUG (Here)
• 2012: Austin vMUG User Conference (Here)
• 2011: VMworld Vegas!
• 2011: Veeam vPower Roadshow Houston
• 2010: VMworld San Francisco (Here)
• 2009: Virtualization Congress (Citrix Synergy 2009)

Podcasting

• #vBrownBag podcast
• Full Stack Journey
• Couch to OpenStack
• Cloud Cast
• Geek Whisperers

Contact Info

If you need to reach out to Cody, you can find him in the following places:

• E-mail: bunchc@gmail.com
• Twitter: @cody_bunch
• Linked-In: Here

Disclosures / Sponsored by

I should state that my blogging activities are hobbies. With that said, everything I blog here are my own personal opinions, and as such, they do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of my employer.