In this chapter, we discussed a lot of topics not obviously related to Spring Cloud, but the tools explained in this chapter will allow you to take advantage of migrating to microservices-based architecture. When using Docker, Kubernetes, or tools for CI or CD, there is an obvious advantage to cloud-native development with Spring Cloud. Of course, all of the presented examples have been launched on the local machine, but you can refer to these to imagine how that process could be designed in a production environment across a cluster of remote machines.
In this chapter, we wanted to show you how simple and quick it can be to move from running Spring microservices manually on the local machine to a fully-automated process that builds the application from source code, creates and runs a Docker image with your application, and deploys it on a cluster consisting of multiple machines. It is not easy to describe all of the features provided by such complex tools as Docker, Kubernetes...
