Spring Cloud Contract helps developers in implementing the Consumer Driver Contracts(CDC) approach. In this article, we'll explain what is Consumer Driven Contract Testing and see how to use Spring Cloud Contract project to implement CDC. As an example, we'll use two Spring Boot applications: a Producer exposing a REST API, and a Consumer being a client of Producer's API.
Spring Cloud Config is a project that offers support for externalized configuration in a distributed system for both client side and server side. At server side, Spring Cloud Config helps you to implement a Config Server, which is a central service that manages configuration for applications across all environments. At client side, you can use Spring Cloud Config to automatically fetch appropriate properties at the application startup. In this article, we'll show how to use Spring Cloud Config to implement a Config Server and how to use it at a client side.
Monitoring is an integral part of modern Site Reliability Engineering practices. In this article, you will learn how to apply monitoring to your application using Micrometer and Google Cloud Monitoring.
Ansible is an open source powerful automation tool used for configuration management, application deployment, orchestration and task automation. Let's create some Ansible config to see how it works.
In a previous article I’ve introduced you Heroku basics and deployed spring-boot-based application there. In the second part I will show you how to add database support and get a little bit into logs and metrics.
Nowadays cloud computing is really common depending on the services that we would like to use, from frequently utilized software applications to development environments, virtual machines and storage.
Heroku is a cloud-based application platform and in this two-part article I will show you how, step by step, deploy Spring Boot application there.