We have reached the end of our Spring Cloud microservices journey! Our exercises began with simple deployments on the local machine, but in the last chapter we deployed our microservices in an environment fully-managed by the cloud vendor, which also automatically built, started, and exposed HTTP APIs on specified domains. I personally think that it is amazing how easily we can run, scale, and expose data outside an application using any of the most popular programming languages or third-party tools, such as a database or a message broker. In fact, each one of us can now implement and launch a production-ready application to the web within a few hours without worrying about the software that has to be installed.
This chapter has shown you how easily you can run Spring Cloud microservices on different platforms. The given examples illustrate the real power of cloud-native applications. No matter whether you launch an application locally on your laptop, inside a Docker Container, using...
