Iain Foulds

IAIN FOULDS is a senior content developer at Microsoft, currently writing technical documentation for Azure container services, virtual machines, and scale sets. Previously, Iain was a premier field engineer with Microsoft for virtualization technologies such as Azure, Hyper-V, and System Center Virtual Machine Manager. With over 15 years of experience in IT, most of it in operations and services, Iain embraced virtualization early with VMware and has helped build and teach others about cloud computing for years.

Iain, originally from England, has lived in the United States for more than a decade and currently resides just outside of Seattle with his wife and two young children, to whom this book is dedicated. He is a fan of football (unfortunately called “soccer” where he lives) and also enjoys ice hockey and almost any form of motor racing. Outside of computing, Iain’s interests include performance and classic cars, aviation photography, and claiming to play the guitar. He’s also a big model train nerd, regularly attending and volunteering at shows and events throughout the Pacific Northwest.

books by Iain Foulds

Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition

  • June 2020
  • ISBN 9781617297625
  • 368 pages
  • printed in black & white

Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition, is a tutorial on writing, deploying, and running applications in Azure. In it, you’ll work through 21 short lessons that give you real-world experience. Each lesson includes a hands-on lab so you can try out and lock in your new skills.

Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches

  • August 2018
  • ISBN 9781617295171
  • 384 pages
  • printed in black & white

Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches teaches you the foundational techniques for writing, deploying, and running cloud-based applications in Azure. In it, you’ll master the basics, including setting up cloud-based virtual machines, deploying web servers, and using hosted data stores. As you work through the book’s 21 carefully planned lessons, you’ll explore big-picture concerns like security, scaling, and automation.You’ll even dabble in Azure’s prebuilt services for machine containers, and serverless computing!