Developing Java Applications with Spring and Spring Boot

How to do it...

1. The first step to getting SSHd Shell to work is to add the necessary dependency starters to our build.gradle file, as follows:

dependencies { 
    ... 
    compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-actuator") 
    compile("io.github.anand1st:sshd-shell-spring-boot-starter:3.2.1") 
    compile("de.codecentric:spring-boot-admin-starter-client:2.0.0-SNAPSHOT") 
    compile("org.jolokia:jolokia-core:+") 
    ... 
} 

2. We also need to explicitly enable it by setting the following property in application.properties, located in the src/main/resources directory in the root of our project it needs to be enhanced with the following entries:

sshd.shell.enabled=true 
management.endpoint.shutdown.enabled=true

3. Now, let's start our application by executing ...