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Cloud-Native Applications in Java

By : Andreas Olsson, Ajay Mahajan, Munish Kumar Gupta, Shyam Sundar S
Book Image

Cloud-Native Applications in Java

By: Andreas Olsson, Ajay Mahajan, Munish Kumar Gupta, Shyam Sundar S

Overview of this book

Businesses today are evolving so rapidly that they are resorting to the elasticity of the cloud to provide a platform to build and deploy their highly scalable applications. This means developers now are faced with the challenge of building build applications that are native to the cloud. For this, they need to be aware of the environment, tools, and resources they’re coding against. If you’re a Java developer who wants to build secure, resilient, robust, and scalable applications that are targeted for cloud-based deployment, this is the book for you. It will be your one stop guide to building cloud-native applications in Java Spring that are hosted in On-prem or cloud providers - AWS and Azure The book begins by explaining the driving factors for cloud adoption and shows you how cloud deployment is different from regular application deployment on a standard data centre. You will learn about design patterns specific to applications running in the cloud and find out how you can build a microservice in Java Spring using REST APIs You will then take a deep dive into the lifecycle of building, testing, and deploying applications with maximum automation to reduce the deployment cycle time. Gradually, you will move on to configuring the AWS and Azure platforms and working with their APIs to deploy your application. Finally, you’ll take a look at API design concerns and their best practices. You’ll also learn how to migrate an existing monolithic application into distributed cloud native applications. By the end, you will understand how to build and monitor a scalable, resilient, and robust cloud native application that is always available and fault tolerant.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Azure platform deployment options


As we saw in the previous section, Azure provides a number of options to build and deploy applications on the platform. We will use our example of the product API REST service to examine the various options provided by Azure to deploy and run our application.

Before we begin, I am assuming you are familiar with the Azure platform and have already signed up in the portal.

Azure supports multiple programming languages and provides SDKs to support development in the respective areas. For our purpose, we are primarily exploring support for Java applications within the Azure platform.

We will explore application hosting services in the following four areas:

  • App Services
  • Container Services
  • Service Fabric
  • Functions

Refer to the following link for more details and getting started: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/downloads/.

Deploying Spring Boot API to Azure App Service

In this section, we are taking our product API service and migrating it to an Azure App Service. We will...