Spring Boot and Spring Cloud Microservices: Build, Secure, and Deploy

Transitioning from monolithic applications to microservices can feel overwhelming with so many moving parts to configure. This text-based course guides you step-by-step through the core concepts of distributed systems, making it easy to design, build, and deploy your first microservice architecture. Through clear written explanations and practical code snippets, you will transition from a basic understanding of RESTful services to managing a fully functional microservice ecosystem. You will learn how to handle service discovery, centralized configuration, security, API routing, resilience, and containerized deployment. What you'll learn: - Understand the core architecture, benefits, and challenges of microservices compared to traditional monoliths. - Build and configure service discovery using Eureka and establish seamless communication with Feign clients. - Secure your microservices using modern Spring Security configurations, role-based access control, and JWT tokens. - Implement resilient routing and load balancing using Spring Cloud API Gateway and Resilience4j. - Configure centralized application properties with Spring Cloud Config Server for dynamic environment management. - Apply modern observability practices using Micrometer for distributed tracing and aggregate logs with the ELK stack. - Containerize your services using Docker and deploy them onto cloud-based Linux environments. You will start with foundational definitions and architectural patterns before writing any code. From there, you will progressively build individual services, link them together using Spring Cloud components, and finally package and run them in containerized environments. This course is designed for Java developers who are new to microservices and want a structured, conceptual, and practical path forward. A basic understanding of core Java and standard Spring Boot is recommended, but no prior microservices or cloud experience is required. Start reading today to build the skills needed to design and deploy modern, scalable distributed systems.