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Spring 5.0 Microservices - Second Edition

By : Rajesh R V
Book Image

Spring 5.0 Microservices - Second Edition

By: Rajesh R V

Overview of this book

The Spring Framework is an application framework and inversion of the control container for the Java platform. The framework’s core features can be used by any Java application, but there are extensions to build web applications on top of the Java EE platform. This book will help you implement the microservice architecture in Spring Framework, Spring Boot, and Spring Cloud. Written to the latest specifications of Spring that focuses on Reactive Programming, you’ll be able to build modern, internet-scale Java applications in no time. The book starts off with guidelines to implement responsive microservices at scale. Next, you will understand how Spring Boot is used to deploy serverless autonomous services by removing the need to have a heavyweight application server. Later, you’ll learn how to go further by deploying your microservices to Docker and managing them with Mesos. By the end of the book, you will have gained more clarity on the implementation of microservices using Spring Framework and will be able to use them in internet-scale deployments through real-world examples.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Spring Cloud Config


Simplify this section. The Spring Cloud Config Server is an externalized configuration server in which applications and services can deposit, access, and manage all runtime configuration properties. The Spring Config Server also supports version control of the configuration properties.

In earlier examples with Spring Boot, all configuration parameters were read from a property file packaged inside the project, either application.properties or application.yaml. This approach is good, since all properties are moved out of code to a property file. However, when microservices are moved from one environment to another, these properties need to undergo changes, which require application rebuild. This is in violation of one of the Twelve-Factor Application principles, which advocates one time build and moving the binaries across environments.

A better approach is to use the concept of profiles. Profiles, as discussed in Chapter 3, Building Microservices with Spring Boot, is used...