What is the use of Docker in Spring Boot? - spring

I am new learner for Spring Boot. I have refer some YouTube channel for learning myself. But in Udemy course only there has using Docker itself. No YouTube channel using Docker.
Can I able to create a Spring Boot application without using Docker?
Is Docker important to develop an Application in Spring Boot?

The answer is yes, you can use spring without docker. To do this, just install java on your computer.
Usually, docker is used in order to be able to work with other resources, such as a database, rabbitmq, etc.
Docker makes it easy for you to interact with external resources, but it's not required.

Docker is another concept. You can learn spring boot independently. The concept of containerization brings in the docker.
Docker is basically an application that facilitates containerization. In order to learn spring boot you don't need docker. Docker can be used with any application, you will have to create containers and then create/use applications inside the docker.
Learn spring boot first, have some grip on it and then proceed towards the concept of containerization.

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How do people host Spring Boot apps with WebFlux on Reactor Netty in production?

I know it's a vague question but that's because I am not clear enough on what people are doing to ask anything more specific. I currently run my own apps with the embedded reactor netty server for development and basically push the embedded server inside a jar to cloud foundry to run the embedded server in production.
What are the other ways out there to set up a production environment for reactive reactor netty apps that people are using, or any documentation you might have seen?
I'm no sure that there is any difference between hosting the reactive spring-webflux application and regular applications.
Spring boot creates a jar with everything bundled inside (netty or more old-school tomcat) - it doesn't matter.
Then you can take this and run it "as is" on your server (on-premise, cloud ec2 style whatever you have, this really depends on your organization) directly with java -jar app.jar
Or, if you have more advanced needs/setup:
"Containerize" the application and create a docker (usually, although there are alternatives) image that runs the spring boot application. and then deploy it on kubernetes cluster, for example. At this point you should really consult with your DevOps people so that they'll tell you what is the way of deployment in your organization.
Besides kubernetes cluster there are many other alternatives:
- cloud provider specific solutions, like ECS or Fargate in amazon AWS
- Docker Swarm to name a few
All these solutions are pretty advanced, allow auto-scaling, advanced liveness monitoring and so forth. As an organization you usually pick the one that meets your needs

Deploy my spring boot application into google cloud computer engine

I got a query to ask you all. I am looking for guides that help me deploy my spring boot application on google cloud computer engine, I type in my instance IP address when I test my spring boot application I unable to access it in REST API.
May I know do you have any guides or steps for me to follow to deploy successfully in google cloud computing engine. Why do I need to deploy in computer engine is because I deployed my angular at it and I deploy it both it seems that my angular project being replaced by my spring boot application.
Codelabs GCP / Spring series has deployment tutorials:
https://codelabs.developers.google.com/spring/
GCP has some "Getting Started" tutorials you can use here:
https://cloud.google.com/java/docs/
where the specific one for deploying a java app to GCE is here:
https://cloud.google.com/java/docs/tutorials/bookshelf-on-compute-engine
But the basic steps are as follows:
Write your Spring app
Build your Spring app
Run / test your jar locally
Push your jar to a location in Storage
Create a startup script for your GCE instance
Create a new GCE VM which uses your startup script using Console, Deployment API, or gcloud tool
After that, you need to ensure you have the proper network rules in place to be able to access your API publicly. If you do not wish to learn how to use GCE, I would suggest you look into using App Engine instead because then you do not need to learn how to deploy and instead can concentrate on your api. Here is a guide to do that

Spring Boot - Cloud Configuration and Docker

I am new to Spring Boot and evaluating the same for building microservice-based application in my organisation.
I have gone through many examples and I see that most of them are tightly coupled with Docker. I understand, each microservice is being run as a new instance. But, if I am working on Windows, and don't want to go the Docker way, does Spring Cloud as a whole really makes sense. Please help me if I am missing out on something.

How Spring Cloud relates to Docker Swarm

I'm confused with cloud/clustering technologies like Docker Swarm and Spring Cloud and how they relates to each other.
Is it correct way to thing, they implement same functionality at different layers? For example docker swarm performs load balancing and service discovery at container or network layer (application is agnostic of this layer), where as framework like Spring Cloud embeds this logic to application, giving more flexibility, but also violating separation of concerns.
Am I mistaken, or is this correct? What is the SWOT of each approach, and is there any reason to use both Docker tooling and Spring Cloud utilities together?
First off, Spring and Docker are two different technologies coming from different points of view. From what I can gather, Spring Cloud is a mechanism for deploying java containers and orchestrating them.
Docker is an application / OS agnostic deployment mechanism.
I don't know much about Spring Cloud, but if you're in an environment that is not all Java, it may make more sense to approach Docker. It would allow you to deploy micro services on just about any platform.
We went through this at the last company I worked for, as they were implementing Springboot, but also looking at Docker at the same time. In the end it just made sense to deploy everything in Docker since it provided a uniform deployment and service management mechanism. That as opposed to hobbling together various deployment and management tools by language.

How to deploy a spring integration component?

I've developed a spring integration component that is to sit on a server and process messages coming in over an inbound RMI channel do some processing/filtering and then send out some messages over a different RMI channel.
Currently, for testing, I've been running it using a Main class that just loads the context, which sets up the inbound RMI gateway and it's working fine. But I don't think that this is appropriate for a production environment.
What is the best way to deploy this type of project to a server?
If I were working in a .Net I'd be deploying this type of application as a windows service, is that what I should be doing here?
The application that is sending me data is hosted in Tomcat, would it be a good idea to also run this application within the same Tomcat container (Current requirements are for both components to be on the same machine this may change)? And if so how?
I'm currently looking into Spring Boot, am I on the right path?
I think the best would be Spring Boot, as it's made to easily allow running different types of applications. Also, you don't need Tomcat if you can run the same component with a simple Main and not using UI. Spring Boot, also, has a sample using Spring Integration here, so you should be up and running in no time.

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