Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! If you're in the US, I hope you enjoyed your Labor Day weekend. I certainly did, gorging on the San Francisco sun and preparing for my O'Reilly online training for tomorrow, Bootiful Kotlin. I'm also busily preparing for the epic SpringOne Tour event in Istanbul, Turkey, customer visits in Atlanta, GA, and of course the epic tentpole SpringOne Platform event coming up later this month in Washington DC. If you're around, I sure hope to see you!

Well, let's get to it!

• In this fifth installment of my series looking at Spring Cloud GCP for Google Cloud, I introduce Google Cloud's support for runtime configuration and how to use it for Spring Cloud applications.
• Spring Data for Apache Geode John Blum has just announced that Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.0.0.M2!
• Spring Data for Apache Geode lead John Blum also just announced Spring Session for Apache Geode 2.0.5 and 2.1.0.M1
• Spring Security ninja Josh Cummings just announced the auto-configuration for Spring Security OAuth2 Boot Auto-config, 2.0.4 & 2.1.0.M2.
• Vick Kelkar has a nice post on …

Hi Spring fans! In this brief 8 part series we’re going to look at the Spring Cloud integration for Google Cloud Platform, called Spring Cloud GCP. Spring Cloud GCP represents a joint effort between Google and Pivotal that endeavors to provide a first class experience for Spring Cloud developers when using the Google Cloud Platform. Pivotal Cloud Foundry users will enjoy an even easier integration with the GCP service broker. I wrote these installments with input from Google Cloud Developer Advocate, and my buddy, Ray Tsang. You can also catch a walkthrough of Spring Cloud GCP in our Google…

Hi Spring fans! In this brief 8 part series we’re going to look at the Spring Cloud integration for Google Cloud Platform, called Spring Cloud GCP. Spring Cloud GCP represents a joint effort between Google and Pivotal that endeavors to provide a first class experience for Spring Cloud developers when using the Google Cloud Platform. Pivotal Cloud Foundry users will enjoy an even easier integration with the GCP service broker. I wrote these installments with input from Google Cloud Developer Advocate, and my buddy, Ray Tsang. You can also catch a walkthrough of Spring Cloud GCP in our Google…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I am in Chicago for the SpringOne Tour Chicago event. If you're around, then of course don't hesitate to say hi! Mostly, though, I've been busily preparing for the epic SpringOnePlatform event event being held in historic Washington DC in September. I hope to see you there!

We've got a lot to get to so let's get to it!

• Spring Cloud Services for PCF Turns 2.0, adds support for your Spring Boot 2 applications
• Nice article on the Pivotal blog on how to build modern data pipelines with Pivotal GemFire and Spring Cloud Data Flow
• Spring Cloud Stream Fishtown.M2 /2.1.0.M2 Release Announcement
• In this installment of my new eight part series introducing Spring Cloud GCP, Bootiful GCP, I look at globally consistent data access with Spring Cloud GCP and Google Cloud Spanner
• In this, the second of an eight part series looking at Spring Cloud GCP and Google Cloud GCP, I …

Hi Spring fans! In this brief 8 part series we’re going to look at the Spring Cloud integration for Google Cloud Platform, called Spring Cloud GCP. Spring Cloud GCP represents a joint effort between Google and Pivotal that endeavors to provide a first class experience for Spring Cloud developers when using the Google Cloud Platform. Pivotal Cloud Foundry users will enjoy an even easier integration with the GCP service broker. I wrote these installments with input from Google Cloud Developer Advocate, and my buddy, Ray Tsang. You can also catch a walkthrough of Spring Cloud GCP in our Google…

Hi Spring fans! In this brief 8 part series we’re going to look at the Spring Cloud integration for Google Cloud Platform, called Spring Cloud GCP. Spring Cloud GCP represents a joint effort between Google and Pivotal that endeavors to provide a first class experience for Spring Cloud developers when using the Google Cloud Platform. Pivotal Cloud Foundry users will enjoy an even easier integration with the GCP service broker. I wrote these installments with input from Google Cloud Developer Advocate, and my buddy, Ray Tsang. You can also catch a walkthrough of Spring Cloud GCP in our Google…

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring. This week I've been in smokey Seattle and I just arrived in hot-n-humid NYC, in both cases to visit customers and Spring teammates. We've got so much to cover, so without further ado, let's get to it!

The Spring team are all heads down as we near the epic SpringOne Platform 2018 event. Are you going to be there? It's going to be September 24-27th, 2018 in Washington, DC. Do not miss this premier event uniting practicioners of agile, Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, devops, and of course Spring in one place.

• With this change in Spring Boot 2.1, you don't even need to annotate your Spring-based JUnit 5 tests with @ExtendWith(SpringExtension.class)
• Josh Cummings has just announced Spring Security 5.1RC1 which includes, among many other things, support for OAuth resource servers and improved support for CORS and secure headers
• Spring Boot 2.1 M2 available now
• Spring Data Lovelace RC2 available
• Hi Spring fans! I've just started an eight-part blog series, with installments being released every Monday and Thursday, that introduces Spring Cloud for the Google Cloud Platform…

Hi Spring fans! In this brief 8 part series we’re going to look at the Spring Cloud integration for Google Cloud Platform, called Spring Cloud GCP. Spring Cloud GCP represents a joint effort between Google and Pivotal that endeavors to provide a first class experience for Spring Cloud developers when using the Google Cloud Platform. Pivotal Cloud Foundry users will enjoy an even easier integration with the GCP service broker. I wrote these installments with input from Google Cloud Developer Advocate, and my buddy, Ray Tsang. You can also catch a walkthrough of Spring Cloud GCP in our Google…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in San Francisco, Seattle, and Los Angeles talking to customers.

We on the Spring team are heads down, preparing for this year's event-to-not-miss, SpringOne Platform. Come to learn about cloud-native application development, cloud computing, agile, devops, big-data, continuous-delivery, testing, and so much more. Get your tickets now! The event is September 24-27th, 2018 in Washington, D.C.

..Speaking of! See this kid? He just passed his Java camp certification and if he gets 1000 likes/RTs, Pivotal'll send him to SpringOne Platform. …

HI Spring fans! This week I'm in Miami for the Java User Group and at home working on new episodes of Spring Tips. Just trying to keep moving! It's been a whirlwind week in Spring, though, so let's get to it!

• Reactor team ninja Simon Baslé has just announced the first milestone of the Californium release train of project Reactor
• This is a nice example of using Spring Data JDBC with JOOQ.. in the Spring Data examples!
• Happy Birthday Istio! This post looks at how Pivotal embeds the service mesh to Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, and Knative
• Ryan Baxter has just announced the first release of Spring Cloud Finchley, SR1
• Our very own Paul Czarkowski has just published a fairly lengthy tutorial on deploying Spinnaker to Pivotal Container Service (or any Kubernetes) using Helm and then creating pipelines in Spinnaker to deploy applications to PKS/Kubernetes. This is awesome…