Spring Boot has a lot of starters that are already a part of the Spring Boot family. This chapter will provide you with an overview of http://start.spring.io/, available starter modules, and will also show you how to make a project Bootiful, as Josh Long likes to call it.

In this chapter, we will learn about the following topics:

• Using a Spring Boot template and starter
• Creating a simple application
• Launching an application using Gradle
• Using the command-line runners
• Setting up a database connection
• Setting up a data repository service
• Scheduling executors