Spring Boot 3 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach for Java Microservices and Cloud-Native Applications

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M. DeinumSpring Boot 3 Recipeshttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0113-6_5

5. Spring Security

Marten Deinum¹  

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Meppel, Drenthe, The Netherlands

 

In this chapter, we will take a look at the Spring Security integration for Spring Boot. Spring Security can be used for both authenticating and authorizing users for your application. Spring Security has a pluggable mechanism for both the authentication and authorization process and by default supports different mechanisms. For authentication, Spring Security has out-of-the-box support for JDBC, LDAP, and property files.

5-1. Enable Security in Your Spring Boot Application

Problem

You have a Spring Boot–based application ...