Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud, 4th Edition

2025 EDITION: Create and deploy production-grade microservices-based applications with this edition fully updated to the latest versions of Spring Boot, Java, and Spring Cloud

Key Features

Build cloud-native production-ready microservices and stay ahead of the curve
Understand the challenges of building large-scale microservice architectures
Learn how to get the best out of the latest updates, including Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Kubernetes, and Istio

Book Description

Do you want to build and deploy microservices but are unsure where to begin? Check out the fully updated 2025 edition of Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud.

Drawing from Magnus’ decades of experience, you’ll start with simple microservices and progress to complex distributed applications, learning essential functionality and deploying microservices using Kubernetes and Istio along the way.

This book covers Java 24, Spring Boot 3.5, and Spring Cloud 2025, featuring updated code examples and replacing deprecated APIs. You’ll get a clear understanding of Spring’s Ahead of Time (AOT) module, observability, distributed tracing, and Helm for Kubernetes packaging. The chapters show you how to use Docker Compose to run microservices with databases and messaging services and deploy microservices on Kubernetes with Istio. You’ll also explore persistence, resilience, reactive microservices, and API documentation with OpenAPI, as well as learn service discovery with Netflix Eureka, edge servers with Spring Cloud Gateway, and monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, and the EFK stack.

By the end of this book, you’ll be able to confidently build scalable microservices using Spring Boot and Spring Cloud.

What you will learn

Build reactive microservices using Spring Boot
Develop resilient and scalable microservices using Spring Cloud
Use OAuth and Spring Security to protect public APIs
Implement Docker to bridge the gap between development, testing, and production
Deploy and manage microservices with Kubernetes
Apply Istio for improved security, observability, and traffic management
Write and run automated microservice tests with JUnit, test containers, Gradle, and bash
Use Spring AOT and GraalVM to compile your microservices into native executables
Utilize Micrometer for distributed tracing

Who this book is for

If you're a Java or Spring Boot developer learning how to build microservice landscapes from scratch, then this book is for you. Prior experience in building apps with Java or Spring Boot will help you get started with this book.