Cloud Native Spring in Action: With Spring Boot and Kubernetes

Build and deliver production-grade cloud-native apps with Spring framework and Kubernetes.

In Cloud Native Spring in Action you'll learn:

- Cloud native best practices and design patterns
- Build and test cloud native apps with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud
- Handle security, resilience, and scalability in imperative and reactive applications
- Configure, deploy, and observe applications on Kubernetes
- Continuous delivery and GitOps to streamline your software lifecycle

Cloud Native Spring in Action is a practical guide to building applications that are designed for cloud environments. You'll learn effective Spring and Kubernetes cloud development techniques that you can immediately apply to enterprise-grade applications. Follow a detailed and complete cloud native system from first concept right through to production and deployment, learning best practices, design patterns, and little-known tips and tricks for pain-free cloud native development. Including coverage of security, continuous delivery, and configuration, this hands-on guide is the perfect primer for navigating the increasingly complex cloud landscape.

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

About the technology
Do you want to learn how to build scalable, resilient, and observable Spring applications that take full advantage of the cloud computing model? If so, Cloud Native Spring in Action is the book for you! It will teach you the essential techniques and practices you need to build efficient Spring Boot applications ready for production in the cloud.

About the book
In Cloud Native Spring in Action, you'll learn how to containerize your Spring Boot applications with Cloud Native Buildpacks and deploy them on Kubernetes. This practical guide delivers unique insights into hosting microservices, serverless applications, and other modern architectures on cloud platforms. You'll learn how to use Spring-based methodologies, practices, and patterns that you won't find anywhere else.

What's inside
- Implement cloud native patterns with Spring
- Handle security, resilience, and scalability
- Build and test imperative and reactive applications
- Configuration and observability on Kubernetes
- Adopt continuous delivery and GitOps

About the reader
For intermediate Java developers.

About the author
Thomas Vitale is a software engineer, open source contributor, and international conference speaker.

Table of Contents
PART 1 - CLOUD NATIVE FUNDAMENTALS
1 Introduction to cloud native
2 Cloud native patterns and technologies
PART 2 - CLOUD NATIVE DEVELOPMENT
3 Getting started with cloud native development
4 Externalized configuration management
5 Persisting and managing data in the cloud
6 Containerizing Spring Boot
7 Kubernetes fundamentals for Spring Boot
PART 3 - CLOUD NATIVE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
8 Reactive Spring: Resilience and scalability
9 API gateway and circuit breakers
10 Event-driven applications and functions
11 Security: Authentication and SPA
12 Security: Authorization and auditing

Thomas Vitale is a software engineer and architect specialized in building cloud native, resilient, and secure enterprise applications. He designs and develops software solutions at Systematic, Denmark, where he's been working on modernizing platforms and applications for the cloud native world, focusing on developer experience and security.

Some of his main interests and focus areas are Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Knative, and cloud native technologies in general. Thomas supports continuous delivery practices and believes in a collaboration culture aimed at working together to deliver value to users, customers, and businesses. He likes contributing to open source projects like Spring Security and Spring Cloud, and sharing knowledge with the community.

Thomas has an MSc in Computer Engineering, specializing in software from the Polytechnic University of Turin (Italy). He is a CNCF Certified Kubernetes Application Developer, Pivotal Certified Spring Professional, and RedHat Certified Enterprise Application Developer. His speaking engagements include those for SpringOne, Spring I/O, KubeCon+CloudNativeCon, Devoxx, GOTO, JBCNConf, DevTalks, and J4K.