Add some Swag{ger} to your SpringBoot API

SpringFox

A while back we created a simple API with spring-boot. See here. One of the key thing is that people have to know how to find and use your API. You can have the coolest API in the world but if people can’t find it and don’t know how to use it….it rather useless. There are a few tools which can help us document our API. We can use Swagger, Continue ReadingAdd some Swag{ger} to your SpringBoot API

Deploy your docker container on Amazon EC2 Elastic Container Service.

awsfargate

In a previous post I deployed my SpringBoot docker container on the Oracle Cloud. In this post I am going to try and do the same but then using Amazons EC2 Elastic Container Service. Lets get started! Setting up your container service I am going to use Amazons Fargate which makes live much easier. What is Fargate? “AWS Fargate is a technology for Amazon ECS and EKS* that allows you Continue ReadingDeploy your docker container on Amazon EC2 Elastic Container Service.

Running a simple SpringBoot API as a Docker container

Docker

Containers are a hot topic nowadays. Is it easy or does it come with a steep learning curve and what are the things to consider? In this blog serie I will show some simple examples of how you can use containers and in which environments. In part 1 I will build a simple SpringBoot application which can be accessed through REST. We will then dockerize it and first run it Continue ReadingRunning a simple SpringBoot API as a Docker container