I have Spring Boot application container deployed in k8s. And I have separate container with Flyway image. I need to make a migration in PostgreSQL DB. Do I need to stop the Spring Boot application container before the migration? Or the application will automatically catch the changes in the DB and fail in case of inappropriate DB schema?
In my special case behavior is the following:
It is not needed to stop the Spring Boot pod to make a migration. In case of wrong schema - requests will return 500 error and the pod will not restart. And when the schema will be fixed, the application will start to work properly without any additional restarts.
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I have a multiple Spring Boot based Micro services which connect a DB2 data base (Master BD). We want to have same replica of Master DB which is called Slave DB2 DB. Every month we have some maintenance on master DB for 5-10 hrs during this time we want all our apps to automatically connect to Slave DB after this time period apps should switch back to Master without manual intervention.
Is this possible to achieve in Sprint Boot. I thought of using Spring Cloud Hystrix but is it correct architectural pattern. Any other better approach.
It's possible to do this on the infrastructure level, your apps does not need to know that there was a failover.
If you want to solve this on the application side, you can use Spring Cloud Circuitbreaker (Hystrix is deprecated, but you can use it with Resilience4J).
I have a springboot microservice application, deployed as docker image in a Kubernetes cluster.
This microservice is (also) an Ignite Client.
If for some reason Ignite Bean fails the startup (for example because there is no Ingnite Server service), the overall application is not able to startup.
I would like to make not mandatory the complete startup of Ignite Bean, so my service can be up & running, even if it cannot use Ignite.
Thanks in advance
I have two docker instances that I launch with docker-compose.
One holds a Cassandra instance
One holds a Spring Boot application that tries to connect to that application.
However, the Spring Boot application will always fail, because it's trying to connect to a Cassandra instance that is not ready yet to take connections.
I have tried:
Using restart:always in Docker-compose
This still doesn't always work, because the Cassandra might be up 'enough' to no longer crash the Spring Boot application, but not up 'enough' to have successfully created the Table/Column family. On top of that, this is a very hacky solution.
Using healthcheck
It seems like healthcheck in compose doesn't have restart capabilities
Using a bash script as entrypoint
In the hope that I could use netstat,ping,... whatever to determine that readiness state of Cassandra
Right now the only thing that really works is using that same bash script and sleep the process for x seconds, then start the jar. This is even more hacky...
Does anyone have an idea on how to solve this?
Thanks!
Does the spring boot service defined in the docker-compose.yml depends_on the cassandara service? If yes then the service is started only if the cassandra service is ready.
https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/#depends_on
Take a look at this github repository, to find a healthcheck for the cassandra service.
https://github.com/docker-library/healthcheck
CONCLUSION
After some discussion we found out that docker-compose seems not to provide a functionality for waiting until services are up and healthy, such as Kubernetes and Openshift provide (See comments below). They recommend to use wrapper script (docker-entrypoint.sh) which waits for the depending service to come up, which make binaries necessary, the actual service shouldn't use such as the cassandra client binary. Additionally the service depending on cassandra could never get up if cassandra doesn't, which shouldn't happen.
A main thing with microservices is that they have to be resilient for failures and are not supposed to die or not to come up if a depending service is currently not available or unexpectedly disappears. Therefore the microservice should be implemented in a way so that it retries to get connection after startup or an unexpected disappearance. Unexpected is a word actually wrongly used in this context, because you should always expect such issues in a distributed environment, and even with docker-compose you will face issues like that as discussed in this topic.
The following link points to a tutorial which helped to integrate cassandra properly into a spring boot application. It provides a way to implement the retrieval of a cassandra connection with a retry behavior, therefore the service is resilient to a non existing cassandra database and will not fail to start anymore. Hope this helps others as well.
https://dzone.com/articles/containerising-a-spring-data-cassandra-application
I have Spring boot mongo db app, when i start running this application if mongo host is alive, am able to see the my app is up and running successfully,
if my mongo host is down when i start my application my app failed to start.
is there any way even thought if mongo host is down my application should be up and running.
could someone please help me on this?
am using spring boot mongo properties in my application
spring.data.mongodb.repositories.enabled=true
spring.data.mongodb.port=27017
spring.data.mongodb.database=db
spring.data.mongodb.uri=mongodb://mongo-node-1.ballu/db
have same problem with spring boot kafka also.
Sorry for the previous comment. It was for excluding auto config beans, anyway
Is there any way even though if mongo host is down my application
should be up and running.
Yes,
spring.datasource.continue-on-error=true #Whether to stop if an error occurs while initializing the database.
as per spring doc
By default, Spring Boot enables the fail-fast feature of the Spring
JDBC initializer. This means that, if the scripts cause exceptions,
the application fails to start. You can tune that behavior by setting
spring.datasource.continue-on-error.
and as of spring kafka try this(i'm not sure if this meets your requirement)
spring.kafka.admin.fail-fast=true # Whether to fail fast if the broker is not available on startup.
My spring boot restful web services is working even though stopped running microsoft sqlserver database in my services. How does it work?
There might be below reason.
You might be using some kind of cache so still response is coming form cache even your db is down.
You might be checking services which are not required db transaction..
OR if you are only referring you application is continue to running then might be spring.datasource.continue-on-error=true has been set. or you might have some defined data source validations properties to at-least continue run app and whenever db is back, it will established a connection.