Part 4. Deployed Spring

In part 4, you’ll ready an application for production and see how to deploy it. Chapter 15 introduces the Spring Boot Actuator, an extension to Spring Boot that exposes the internals of a running Spring application as REST endpoints and JMX MBeans. In chapter 16, you’ll see how to use Spring Boot Admin to put a user-friendly browser-based administrative application on top of the Actuator. You’ll also see how to register client applications with and secure the Admin Server. Chapter 17 discusses how to expose and consume Spring beans as JMX MBeans. Finally, in chapter 18, you’ll see how to deploy your Spring application in a variety of production environments, including containerized Spring applications that can run in Kubernetes.