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Introduction to Spring Cloud

Spring Cloud works with Spring boot and provides components/libraries to quickly build some of the common patterns in distributed systems. Examples:
  • Configuration management
  • Service discovery
  • Circuit breakers
  • Distributed messaging
  • Routing
  • Distributed sessions
  • Distributed logging
  • Cloud pipeline

Features of Spring Cloud
  • Follows Spring boot model
  • Follows microservice architecture
  • Can be used with any cloud provider
  • Helps develop many cloud components quickly

Set Up

Spring cloud dependencies can be added in the Spring boot POM file. So JDK and a Java IDE are needed to get started. Additional software may need to be set up based on the component we are developing. We will go through those set up in the individual component development section.


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