On behalf of the Spring Cloud team it is my pleasure to announce a new project called Spring Cloud Pipelines. Unlike most of Spring projects this one is not available at any repository since it’s not a library, but instead it is available as a github repo for you to download and use as template for creating a deployment pipeline.

Without any further ado let’s get into some details related to the project.

Problem we’re trying to solve

Spring, Spring Boot and Spring Cloud are tools that allow developers speed up the time of creating new business features. It’s common knowledge however that the…

On behalf of the team, I am happy to announce the general availability of the Spring Cloud Contract in version 1.0.0.RELEASE. You can download it from Spring Release or Maven Central. The reference documentation is available here. The release notes are available here.

What is Spring Cloud Contract for? What you always need is confidence in pushing new features into a new application or service in a distributed system. Spring Cloud Contract project provides support for Consumer Driven Contracts and service schemas in Spring applications, covering a range of options for writing tests, publishing…

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Milestone 1 of the Spring Cloud Camden Release Train is available today. The release can be found in our Spring Milestone repository. We’ve made numerous enhancements and bug fixes! You can check out the Camden.M1 release notes for more information.

The following modules were updated as part of Camden.M1:

Spring Cloud Build        1.2.0.RELEASE
Spring Cloud Stream       Brooklyn.M1
Spring Cloud Bus          1.2.0.M1
Spring Cloud Config       1.2.0.M1
Spring Cloud Netflix      1.2.0.M1
Spring Cloud Consul       1.1.0.M1
Spring Cloud…

On behalf of the Spring Cloud team it is my pleasure to announce the 1.0.0.M1 release of the new Spring Cloud project called Spring Cloud Contract. You can grab it from the Spring’s milestone repository or even better - go to start.spring.io and pick it from there.

Spring Cloud Contract

The microservice approach has plenty of benefits but also introduces complexity. This is an inevitable result of working with distributed systems: with increasing complexity inevitably more questions are posed. In this article we show how to test microservices and create a better API by using the Consumer…

This article will explain in depth how to tackle issues related to database compatibility and the deployment process. We will present what can happen with your production applications if you try to perform such a deployment unprepared. We will then walk through the steps in the lifecycle of an application that are necessary to have zero downtime. The result of our operations will be applying a backward incompatible database change in a backward compatible way.

If you want to work through the code samples below, you will find everything you need in GitHub.

Introduction

Zero downtime deployment

What is this mythical zero downtime deployment? You can say that your application is deployed that way if you can successfully introduce a new version of your application to production without making the user see that the application went down in the meantime. From the user’s and the company’s point of view it’s the best possible scenario of deployment since new features can be introduced…

Welcome to my first blog post as a Spring Cloud team member :)

It's been a month since I joined and it's worth to share some of the interesting things that took place during that time.

If you've been reading any of my posts at my Too Much Coding blog then you know that I'm crazy about two things - testing and microservices. Since all that I do at the moment is microservice related today's post will be about testing.

The Spring Cloud projects

When I joined Spring Cloud team I did a quick scan of the Github and it turned out that we have quite a few projects to govern including:

• Spring Cloud Netflix (including Eureka Discovery Service and Registry, Hystrix, Feign and RIbbon support)
• Spring Cloud Zookeeper
• Spring Cloud Consul
• Spring Cloud Sleuth
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