Developing Java Applications with Spring and Spring Boot

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Spring Boot recognizes that there are many reasons and it needs to be able to provide separate configuration for the way management endpoints and other actuator components work, which is different from the main application. The first level of such configurations can be achieved by setting the myriad of available properties that intuitively start with management.*. We have used one such property, management.server.port, to set the port for the management interface to be 8081. We could also set things like the SSL configuration, security settings, or network IP interface address to bind the listener to. We also have the capability to configure each individual actuator endpoint by setting their corresponding properties, which ...