Benjamin Muschko

Independent Consultant, Automated Ascent

Benjamin Muschko
   

Benjamin Muschko is a software engineer, consultant, and trainer with more than 20 years of experience in the industry. He specializes in cloud-native application development and transformation, container solutions, DevSecOps, and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery implementations. Ben is an author, a frequent speaker at conferences, and an avid open source advocate.

Presentations

Enterprise-Scale Code Modernization: 10 Hard-Won Lessons from OpenRewrite and Moderne Transformation

After helping Fortune 500 companies modernize millions of lines of code across thousands of repositories, we've discovered that technical excellence isn't enoughthe human and organizational challenges often determine success or failure. This session distills real-world experiences from large-scale OpenRewrite and Moderne adoptions into 10 actionable lessons that will save your organization months of effort and millions in technical debt reduction costs.

Books

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) Study Guide, 2nd Edition

by Benjamin Muschko

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) Study Guide, 2nd Edition
  • This study guide walks you through all the topics you need to fully prepare for the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exam. Author Benjamin Muschko also shares his personal experience with preparing for all aspects of the exam.

    New topics include: Deployment strategies, the Helm package manager, resources that extend Kubernetes (CRD), building container images, and more

Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) Study Guide

by Benjamin Muschko

Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) Study Guide
  • This study guide walks you through all the topics you need to fully prepare for the CertifiedSecurity Specialist (CKS) exam. Author Benjamin Muschko also shares his personal experience with preparing for all aspects of the exam.

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Study Guide

by Benjamin Muschko

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Study Guide
  • This study guide walks you through all the topics you need to fully prepare for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam. Author Benjamin Muschko also shares his personal experience with preparing for all aspects of the exam.

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) Study Guide, 1st Edition

by Benjamin Muschko

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) Study Guide, 1st Edition
  • This study guide walks you through all the topics you need to fully prepare for the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exam. Author Benjamin Muschko also shares his personal experience with preparing for all aspects of the exam.

Gradle in Action

by Benjamin Muschko

Gradle in Action

  • Summary

    Gradle in Action is a comprehensive guide to end-to-end project automation with Gradle. Starting with the basics, this practical, easy-to-read book discusses how to build a full-fledged, real-world project. Along the way, it touches on advanced topics like testing, continuous integration, and monitoring code quality. You'll also explore tasks like setting up your target environment and deploying your software.

    About the Technology

    Gradle is a general-purpose build automation tool. It extends the usage patterns established by its forerunners, Ant and Maven, and allows builds that are expressive, maintainable, and easy to understand. Using a flexible Groovy-based DSL, Gradle provides declarative and extendable language elements that let you model your project's needs the way you want.

    About the Book

    Gradle in Action is a comprehensive guide to end-to-end project automation with Gradle. Starting with the basics, this practical, easy-to-read book discusses how to establish an effective build process for a full-fledged, real-world project. Along the way, it covers advanced topics like testing, continuous integration, and monitoring code quality. You'll also explore tasks like setting up your target environment and deploying your software.

    The book assumes a basic background in Java, but no knowledge of Groovy.

    Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

    Whats Inside

    • A comprehensive guide to Gradle
    • Practical, real-world examples
    • Transitioning from Ant and Maven
    • In-depth plugin development
    • Continuous delivery with Gradle

    About the Author

    Benjamin Muschko is a member of the Gradleware engineering team and the author of several popular Gradle plugins.

    Table of Contents

      PART 1 INTRODUCING GRADLE
    1. Introduction to project automation
    2. Next-generation builds with Gradle
    3. Building a Gradle project by example
      4. PART 2 MASTERING THE FUNDAMENTALS
    4. Build script essentials
    5. Dependency management
    6. Multiproject builds
    7. Testing with Gradle
    8. Extending Gradle
    9. Integration and migration
      10. PART 3 FROM BUILD TO DEPLOYMENT
    10. IDE support and tooling
    11. Building polyglot projects
    12. Code quality management and monitoring
    13. Continuous integration
    14. Artifact assembly and publishing
    15. Infrastructure provisioning and deployment