Part 5. Deployed Spring

In part 5, you’ll ready an application for production and see how to deploy it. Chapter 16 introduces the Spring Boot Actuator, an extension to Spring Boot that exposes the internals of a running Spring application as REST endpoints and JMX MBeans. In chapter 17 you’ll see how to use the Spring Boot Admin to put a user-friendly browser-based administrative application on top of the Actuator. You’ll see how to register client applications with and secure the Admin Server. Chapter 18 discusses how to expose and consume Spring beans as JMX MBeans. Finally, in chapter 19 you’ll see how to deploy your Spring application in a variety of production environments. Anyone who has deployed a Java-based application may think this is obvious, but there are some features of Spring Boot and related Spring projects that make deploying Spring boot applications unique.