Spring Cloud Task App Starters
Elston SR1Spring Cloud Task Application Starters are Spring Boot applications that may be any process includinghttps://projects.spring.io/spring-batch[Spring Batch] jobs that do not run forever, and they end/stop at some point. Spring Cloud Task Applications can be used with Spring Cloud Data Flow to create, deploy, and orchestrate short-lived data microservices.
Spring Cloud Task Application Starters are standalone executable applications that can be used for on-demand use-cases such as database migration, machine learning, and scheduled operations. These applications can run independently on variety of runtime platforms including: Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, Docker, or even on your laptop. If you are new to task app starters
Features
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Run standalone as Spring Boot applications
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Orchestrate as ephemeral data microservices
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Consume data microservice applications as maven or docker artifacts
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Override configuration parameters via command-line, environment variables, or YAML file
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Provide infrastructure to test the applications in isolation
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Download as starters from this version of Spring Initializr
Running a sample Task Launcher
Step 1 - Download the latest timestamp application from here [eg: /1.3.0.RELEASE/timestamp-task-1.3.0.RELEASE.jar]
Step 2 - Run timestamp application
java -jar timestamp-task-***.jarStep 3 - Verify timestamp logs in console
Step 4 - Verify timestamp application shutsdown
Task App Starters and Spring Cloud Data Flow (**)
Artifact Type |
Stable Release |
Milestone/Snapshot Release |
Maven |
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Docker |
(**) find out how to use the app-starters in Spring Cloud Data Flow by reviewing the app-registration section in the reference guide
Documentation
| Elston SR1 CURRENT GA | Reference Doc. | API Doc. |
| Elston SNAPSHOT | Reference Doc. | API Doc. |
| Dearborn SR1 GA | Reference Doc. | API Doc. |
| Clark GA | Reference Doc. | API Doc. |