{"id":227967,"date":"2021-03-11T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T18:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/java\/?p=227967"},"modified":"2021-03-11T10:00:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T18:00:50","slug":"deploy-spring-boot-applications-by-leveraging-enterprise-best-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/java\/deploy-spring-boot-applications-by-leveraging-enterprise-best-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Deploy Spring Boot applications by leveraging enterprise best practices \u2013 Azure Spring Cloud Reference Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, we\u2019re excited to announce the availability of the Azure Spring Cloud Reference Architecture. You can get started by deploying the Azure Spring Cloud Reference Architecture<\/a> to accelerate and secure Spring Boot applications in the cloud at scale using validated best practices.<\/p>\n

Over the past year, we worked with many enterprise customers to learn about their scenarios including thoughts on scaling properly, security, deployment, and cost requirements. Many of these customers have thousands of Spring Boot applications running in on-premises data centers. As they migrate these applications to the cloud, they need battle-tested architectures that instill confidence to meet the requirements set forth by their IT departments and\/or regulatory bodies. In many customer environments, they also need to show direct mappings from architectures to industry-defined security controls and benchmarks. We thank these customers for the opportunity to work with them, and for helping us to build an Azure Spring Cloud Reference Architecture. Using this reference architecture, you can deploy and customize to meet your specific requirements and showcase pre-defined mappings to security controls and benchmarks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe availability of Azure Spring Cloud Reference architecture reduced our internal cycles of researching architecture options and Spring Cloud feature sets, which allowed us to rapidly determine how we would want to implement and scale globally.\u201d — Devon Yost, Enterprise Architect, <\/em>Digital Realty Trust<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cCongratulations to you and your team for creating and providing the Azure Spring Cloud Reference Architecture free to all customers. The reference architecture is a great way for users to compare their design to how the experts at Microsoft design deployments. It is incredible for the reference architecture to include deployments using multiple technologies. We were able to compare the reference Terraform implementation and quickly understand the architecture. We have even started testing Azure DNS as highlighted in the architecture to manage our DNS using Infrastructure as Code principles.\u201d \u2013 Armando Guzman, Principal Software Engineer, Unified Commerce, <\/em>Raley\u2019s<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ease of deploying Java applications<\/h2>\n

Azure Spring Cloud is jointly built, operated, and supported by Microsoft and VMware. It is a fully managed service for Spring Boot applications that lets you focus on building the applications that run your business without the hassle of managing infrastructure. The service incorporates Azure compute, network, and storage services in a well-architected design, reducing the number of infrastructure decisions. The Azure Spring Cloud Reference Architecture provides a deployable design that is mapped to industry security benchmarks providing a head start for compliance approval. The implementation and configuration of each service referenced in the architecture were evaluated against security controls to ensure a secure design.<\/p>\n

Security and Managed Virtual Network<\/h2>\n

Security is a key tenet of Azure Spring Cloud, and you can secure Spring Boot applications by deploying to Azure Spring Cloud in Managed Virtual Networks (VNETs). With VNETs, you can secure the perimeters around your Spring Boot applications and other dependencies by:<\/p>\n