Alex Soto

Alex Soto Bueno is a Director of Developer Experience at Red Hat. He is passionate about the Java world, and software automation, and believes in the open-source software model. Alex is the co-author of Testing Java Microservices, Quarkus Cookbook, Securing Kubernetes Secrets, and contributor to several open-source projects. A Java Champion since 2017, Alex is also an international speaker, radio collaborator at Onda Cero, and teacher at Salle URL University. You can follow Alex on Twitter (@alexsotob) to stay tuned to what’s going on in Kubernetes and the Java world.

books by Alex Soto

Kubernetes Secrets Management
  • December 2022
  • ISBN 9781617298912
  • 248 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
catalog / Software Development / Cloud / Containerization / Kubernetes

Kubernetes Secrets Management reveals security best practices and reliable third-party tools for protecting sensitive data in Kubernetes-based systems. In this focused guide, you’ll explore relevant, real-world examples like protecting secrets in a code repository, securing keys with HashiCorp Vault, and adding layers to maintain protection after a breach. Along the way, you’ll pick up secrets management techniques you can use outside Kubernetes, as well.

Testing Java Microservices
  • August 2018
  • ISBN 9781617292897
  • 296 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: Simplified Chinese
catalog / Software Development / Software Engineering / Code Quality and Testing / Software Testing

Testing Java Microservices teaches you to implement unit and integration tests for microservice systems running on the JVM. You’ll work with a microservice environment built using Java EE, WildFly Swarm, and Docker. You’ll advance from writing simple unit tests for individual services to more-advanced practices like chaos or integration tests. As you move towards a continuous-delivery pipeline, you’ll also master live system testing using technologies like the Arquillian, Wiremock, and Mockito frameworks, along with techniques like contract testing and over-the-wire service virtualization. Master these microservice-specific practices and tools and you’ll greatly increase your test coverage and productivity, and gain confidence that your system will work as you expect.