Hands-On Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud

Using Spring Initializr to generate skeleton code

To get started with developing our microservices, we will use a tool called Spring Initializr to generate skeleton code for us. It can either be invoked from a web browser using the https://start.spring.io/ URL or by a command-line tool, spring init. To make it easier to reproduce the creation of the microservices, we will use the command-line tool.

For each microservice, we will create a Spring Boot project which does the following:

• Uses Gradle as a build tool
• Generates code for Java 8 
• Packages the project as a fat JAR file
• Brings in dependencies for the Actuator and WebFlux Spring modules
• Is based on Spring Boot v2.1.0 RC1 (which depends on Spring Framework v5.1.1)

Spring Boot Actuator ...