Distributed configuration with Spring Cloud Config

Course details

This course will lead intermediate to advanced SpringFramework and Spring Boot developers in creating a centralized Cloud Configuration server for use in cloud environments and MicroService architectures.

The course starts by creating a centralized Spring Cloud Config server. Students will learn how this can be used with or without a cloud oriented system like AWS. This technique can give great flexibility and manageability to any Spring-based deployment.

Students will create Spring Boot projects based mostly on Maven, but will also learn how to create the same projects using Gradle.

Then students will create a local GIT repository and pushing configuration files the students have created.

Then students will create remote Spring Boot clients to pull configuration from the Central config server, detailing out the various configuration that each remote application retrieve.

The students will then cover additional topics such as GIT TAG's and BRANCH's, and how applications can pull from them.

Students will also learn techniques for dynamically changing version of configuration to be pulled from a Spring Cloud Config server, for applications like parallel Microservice deployments.

Spring Cloud Config Server features:

• HTTP, resource-based API for external configuration (name-value pairs, or equivalent YAML content)
• Encrypt and decrypt property values (symmetric or asymmetric)
• Embeddable easily in a Spring Boot application using @EnableConfigServer
• Enable BASIC Authentication for configuration access

Config Client features (for Spring applications):

• Bind to the Config Server and initialize Spring Environment with remote property sources
• Bind directly to complex Objects using @ConfigurationProperties with remote property source
• Enable BASIC Authentication for configuration access

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