Cloud Native Spring in Action - by Thomas Vitale (Paperback)

About the Book

To really benefit from the reliability and scalability you get with cloud platforms, your applications need to be designed for that environment. Cloud Native Spring in Action is a practical guide for planning, designing, and building your first cloud native apps using the powerful, industry-standard Spring framework. You'll 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.

Book Synopsis

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

From the Back Cover

Cloud Native Spring in Action teaches you effective Spring and Kubernetes cloud development techniques that you can immediately apply to enterprise-grade applications. It takes you step by step from your first idea through to production, showing how cloud native development can add business value at every stage of the software development lifecycle. As you develop an online bookshop, you'll learn how to build and test a cloud native app with Spring, containerize it with Docker, and deploy it to the public cloud with Kubernetes. Including coverage of security, continuous delivery, and configuration, this hands-on guide is the perfect primer for navigating the increasingly complex cloud landscape.

Review Quotes

"An excellent practical guide to learn and develop Cloud Native apps using Spring. A must-have for Spring professional." Harinath Kuntamukkala

"Curious about writing production grade Cloud Native applications using Spring and don't know where to start? Read this book and thank me later!" Yogesh Shetty

"The definitive guide to developing cloud native applications using Spring." Nathan B Crocker

"Filled to the brim with real world examples and ready to use code." Mladen Knezic

"This book is perfect to understand how to build cloud native architecture using Java and Spring. All the chapters are useful and their content can be applied in real-world scenarios." Gilberto Taccari

About the Author

Thomas Vitale has an MSc in computer engineering specializing in software. He is a Red Hat Certified Enterprise Application Developer and Pivotal Certified Spring Professional. Thomas has been building Java applications for more than 5 years, using Spring and Java EE/Jakarta EE. He is currently a senior software engineer at Systematic, where he designs and develops enterprise software solutions in the healthcare domain. Thomas has led the development of security and data privacy features while ensuring performance, resiliency, and stability. He has been working on migrating traditional applications to cloud native, defining guidelines for building resilient and scalable apps.