The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the release of 1.5.0 RC1. Follow the Getting Started guides for Local Server, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes.

Here are the highlights:

General Improvements

• Switch to Hikari connection pool and restructure code to use fewer connections.

• Several bug fixes in underling deployer libraries.

Dashboard

• Editing a created/deployed stream is now possible from the Stream Builder. The application and deployment properties can be edited and re-deployed. The App version can be switched, too.

• A new paginator component is added to all the list page. Switching from a list of 20, 30, 50, or 100 items per page is possible. This further simplifies the bulk operation workflows.

• Introduction of end-to-end testing via Selenium and SauceLabs.

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The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the release of 1.5.0 M1. Follow the Getting Started guides for Local Server, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes.

Here are the highlights:

• UI Improvements

• Spring Boot & Spring Cloud Stream 2.0 Support

• Nested splits for Composed Tasks

• Metrics Collector 2.0 M1

• Stream Application Starters Darwin M1 release train

• Support for deploying to multiple Kubernetes clusters

UI Improvements

We have continued to improve the UI/UX of the Dashboard. You will immediately notice an overall lighter weight design. The Tasks tab has been rewritten to…

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Cloud Skipper 1.0 GA

Skipper is a lightweight tool that allows you to discover Spring Boot applications and manage their lifecycle on multiple Cloud Platforms. You can use Skipper standalone or integrate it with Continuous Integration pipelines to help implement the practice of Continuous Deployment.

The getting started section in the reference guide is the best place to start kicking the tires.

Release Highlights:

• Introduction of Flyway to manage schema along with various schema tweaks.

• Option to delete a release along with its package.

• Refined the REST API.

• Updated properties to YAML converter.

• Add resource metadata in manifest template.

• Separate platform deployers into multiple maven modules.

• Support passing to the shell commands to execute.

• Updated documentation.

• Various bug fixes.

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We are pleased to announce the 1.3.0.RC1 release of the Spring Cloud Data Flow and its associated ecosystem of projects.

Follow the Getting Started guides for Local Server, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes.

Release Highlights

Feature toggle for Skipper

To simplify the overall experience of opting into using Skipper to deploy streams, a feature toggle provides you the ability to switch between skipper mode and the previous 'classic' mode. The feature toggle is used in both the Shell and the Server. The default value is to use the 'classic' non-skipper mode. To enable skipper mode, pass in the…

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Cloud Skipper 1.0 RC1.

Skipper is a lightweight tool that allows you to discover Spring Boot applications and manage their lifecycle on multiple Cloud Platforms. You can use Skipper standalone or integrate it with Continuous Integration pipelines to help implement the practice of Continuous Deployment.

The 1.0 RC1 release fixes several bugs and introduces a some new features.

• OAuth Security support.
• Release install, upgrade, and rollback workflow managed using the Spring StateMachine project.
• REST API improvements.
• Database Schemas managed using Flyway.
• Package deletion, checking for active Releases.
• Release deletion with optional package deletion.
• Shell commands follow a consistent format, e.g. platform list, release status.
• Add support for ResourceMetadata URIs in package template.
• Support for interactive and non-interactive shell modes.
• Improved conversion from java.util.Properties, to YAML in shell.
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We are pleased to announce the 1.3.0.M3 release of the Spring Cloud Data Flow for Cloud Foundry.

The Getting Started Guide is the best place to start kicking the tires.

Release Highlights

Stream updates, a JavaDSL, and the complete port of the UI to the Angular 4.0 stack are some of the main highlights. More information on release highlights can be found in the release blog for the core Data Flow project.

Of note for the Cloud Foundry server is an upgrade to v2.23.0 of the cf-java client library and setting the default health check to be http instead of port. You can now also specify the…

We are pleased to announce the 1.3.0.M3 release of the Spring Cloud Data Flow and its associated ecosystem of projects.

Local Server: Getting Started Guide

Release Highlights

Stream updates and rollback

A streaming data pipeline orchestrated as a series of microservice applications has always been the core value of Spring Cloud Data Flow’s design. In 1.3.0.M3 we have provided the ability to update sources, processors, and sinks independently without having to undeploy and redeploy the entire stream.

The stream update feature is implemented by delegating the deployment process to a new Spring Cloud project called Skipper. Introduced in this blog, Spring Cloud Skipper is a standalone server that deploys Spring Boot applications to multiple cloud platforms. It also keeps track of the application version, application properties, and deployment properties of the deployed application or applications so that the changes to any of these…

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Cloud Skipper 1.0 M2.

Skipper is a lightweight tool that allows you to discover Spring Boot applications and manage their lifecycle on multiple Cloud Platforms. You can use Skipper standalone or integrate it with Continuous Integration pipelines to help implement the practice of Continuous Deployment.

The 1.0 M2 release fixes several bugs and introduces a few new features.

• Support for Postgres, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and HSQLDB databases.
• Improved support for upgrading applications that use an HTTP location for the resource definition.
• LRU cache used to manage disk space for HTTP and Maven based resources that are downloaded.
• HTTP based resources are always downloaded, never cached.
• Use updated CF Deployer library with an HTTP based health check.
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On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Cloud Skipper 1.0 M1.

Skipper is a lightweight tool that allows you to discover Spring Boot applications and manage their lifecycle on multiple Cloud Platforms. You can use Skipper standalone or integrate it with Continuous Integration pipelines to help implement the practice of Continuous Deployment.

The main features in Skipper 1.0 M1 are:

• Define multiple platform accounts where Spring Boot applications can be deployed. Supported platforms are Local, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes.
• Substitute variables in Mustache templated files that describe how to deploy applications to a platform.
• Search Package Repositories for existing applications.
• Upgrade/Rollback a package based on a simple blue/green workflow.
• Store the history of resolved template files (aka 'application manifests') which represent the final description of what has been deployed to a platform for a specific release.
• Use via a standalone interactive shell or web API.
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On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the general availability of Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.2 across a range of platforms

Here are the relevant links to documentation and getting started guides.

• Local: Quick Start, Getting Started Guide

• Cloud Foundry: Getting Started Guide

• YARN: Getting Started Guide

• Kubernetes: Getting Started Guide

Highlights of the 1.2 release:

Composed Tasks

This release introduces Composed Tasks ! This feature provides the ability to orchestrate a flow of tasks as a cohesive unit-of-work. A complex ETL pipeline may include executions in sequence, parallel, conditional transitions, or a combination of all of the above. The composed task feature comes with DSL primitives and an interactive graphical interface to quickly build these type of topologies more easily. You can read more about it from the reference guide…