Hi Spring fans! In this brief 8 part series we’re going to look at the Spring Cloud integration for Google Cloud Platform, called Spring Cloud GCP. Spring Cloud GCP represents a joint effort between Google and Pivotal that endeavors to provide a first class experience for Spring Cloud developers when using the Google Cloud Platform. Pivotal Cloud Foundry users will enjoy an even easier integration with the GCP service broker. I wrote these installments with input from Google Cloud Developer Advocate, and my buddy, Ray Tsang. You can also catch a walkthrough of Spring Cloud GCP in our Google…

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring. This week I've been in smokey Seattle and I just arrived in hot-n-humid NYC, in both cases to visit customers and Spring teammates. We've got so much to cover, so without further ado, let's get to it!

The Spring team are all heads down as we near the epic SpringOne Platform 2018 event. Are you going to be there? It's going to be September 24-27th, 2018 in Washington, DC. Do not miss this premier event uniting practicioners of agile, Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, devops, and of course Spring in one place.

• With this change in Spring Boot 2.1, you don't even need to annotate your Spring-based JUnit 5 tests with @ExtendWith(SpringExtension.class)
• Josh Cummings has just announced Spring Security 5.1RC1 which includes, among many other things, support for OAuth resource servers and improved support for CORS and secure headers
• Spring Boot 2.1 M2 available now
• Spring Data Lovelace RC2 available
• Hi Spring fans! I've just started an eight-part blog series, with installments being released every Monday and Thursday, that introduces Spring Cloud for the Google Cloud Platform…

Hi Spring fans! In this brief 8 part series we’re going to look at the Spring Cloud integration for Google Cloud Platform, called Spring Cloud GCP. Spring Cloud GCP represents a joint effort between Google and Pivotal that endeavors to provide a first class experience for Spring Cloud developers when using the Google Cloud Platform. Pivotal Cloud Foundry users will enjoy an even easier integration with the GCP service broker. I wrote these installments with input from Google Cloud Developer Advocate, and my buddy, Ray Tsang. You can also catch a walkthrough of Spring Cloud GCP in our Google…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in San Francisco, Seattle, and Los Angeles talking to customers.

We on the Spring team are heads down, preparing for this year's event-to-not-miss, SpringOne Platform. Come to learn about cloud-native application development, cloud computing, agile, devops, big-data, continuous-delivery, testing, and so much more. Get your tickets now! The event is September 24-27th, 2018 in Washington, D.C.

..Speaking of! See this kid? He just passed his Java camp certification and if he gets 1000 likes/RTs, Pivotal'll send him to SpringOne Platform. …

HI Spring fans! This week I'm in Miami for the Java User Group and at home working on new episodes of Spring Tips. Just trying to keep moving! It's been a whirlwind week in Spring, though, so let's get to it!

• Reactor team ninja Simon Baslé has just announced the first milestone of the Californium release train of project Reactor
• This is a nice example of using Spring Data JDBC with JOOQ.. in the Spring Data examples!
• Happy Birthday Istio! This post looks at how Pivotal embeds the service mesh to Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, and Knative
• Ryan Baxter has just announced the first release of Spring Cloud Finchley, SR1
• Our very own Paul Czarkowski has just published a fairly lengthy tutorial on deploying Spinnaker to Pivotal Container Service (or any Kubernetes) using Helm and then creating pipelines in Spinnaker to deploy applications to PKS/Kubernetes. This is awesome…

On behalf of the Reactor team, I have the pleasure of announcing the newest Reactor milestone, Californium-M1 ? ?

The team has been busy working on Californium, the third major installment of Reactor 3. We are now ready for your feedback on a few select issues, and we have a lot of enhancements and bug fixes ready for your consumption as well.

Californium-M1 BOM

For its third release train, we continue on the theme of alphabetically increasing names on the periodic table of elements. Californium is an element first synthesized in California.

The milestone's BOM contains:

• reactor-core 3.2.0.M3
• reactor-extra 3.2.0.M1 (with a few API alignment changes)
• reactor-netty 0.8.0.M1
…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I just finished an online training today, Bootiful Kotlin, for O'Reilly today, and I'm doing another one on the 2nd of August (this Thursday), Reactive Spring, because the demand for the first one was so high. Don't miss it!

We've got a ton of things to look at, so without further ado, let's get to it!

• A friendly reminder that our Spring YouTube channel is awesome! There's so much good stuff and it's easy to get back to it. Just go to spring dot io dot video
• Are you using Spring Cloud Edgware? You should be aware that it's now entering it's EOL period, ending officially August 1st, 2019
• The good Dr. Mark Pollack has just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.6 GA which contains a ton of new stuff including, task scheduling on PCF, dashboard improvements, Kubernetes support…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in San Francisco in studio with Spring Security lead Rob Winch filming our new Spring Security Livelessons video. There is so much to cover that, as you can imagine, it's a tall order even for the two of us!

I'm also busily preparing for my talk with my buddy and Googler Ray Tsang at this week's Google Cloud NEXT event on all things Pivotal and Google Cloud. We're going to look at the bootiful Spring Cloud GCP project and, importantly, the new project jointly announced between Google and Pivotal just this morning, KNative, which serves as the platform on which we at Pivotal have built and deployed our Project Riff serverless function-as-a-service runtime. Do not…

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe we're already midway through the year?? Stunning.

This week I'm in San Francisco preparing for a video shoot next week and a joint presentatio with Google's Ray Tsang at next week's Google NEXT and tomorrow it's off to Portland, OR, for the epic OSCON event where I'll be doing a book signing at the O'Reilly booth on Wednesday and I'll be doing a talk, Reactive Spring, on thursday. As usual, if you're in the region and want to chat or grab a Voodoo doughnut, don't hesitate to say hi!

Now, without further…