The Spring Observability Team has been working on adding observability support for Spring Applications for quite some time, and we are pleased to inform you that this feature will be generally available with Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3!

What is observability? In our understanding, it is "how well you can understand the internals of your system by examining its outputs". We believe that the interconnection between metrics, logging, and distributed tracing gives you the ability to reason about the state of your system in order to debug exceptions and latency in your applications. You can watch more about what we think observability is in this episode of Enlightning with Jonatan Ivanov…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the release of the Spring Cloud Sletuh OTel 1.1.0 project is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the reference documentation for more information.

What is this?

Spring Cloud Sleuth OTel is an extension project to Spring Cloud Sleuth that comes with an OpenTelemetry tracer.

As always, we welcome feedback on GitHub, on Gitter, on Stack Overflow, or on Twitter.

To get started with Maven with a BOM (dependency management only):

<dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 2 (M2) of the Spring Cloud 2022.0.0 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2022.0 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2022.0.0-M2 Release Train

See the project page for all the issues and pull requests included in this release.

Spring Cloud 2022.0.0-M2 is compatible with Spring Boot 3.0.0-M2.

Spring Cloud Stream

• Both Kafka and RabbitMQ binders for Spring Cloud Stream have been migrated as part of the core Spring Cloud Stream repository. With this change, Spring Cloud Stream now follows a mono-repo approach where all the framework-related codebase for Spring Cloud Stream is now part of a single repository. See more details here for the Kafka binder and here for the RabbitMQ binder. We recommend filing new feature requests and bug reports for Kafka and RabbitMQ binders in the core repository.
• Introduced initial support for a new reactive Kafka binder based on Reactor Kafka. This support contains consumer and producer bindings using Reactor Kafka behind the scenes. See this issue…

With the release of the Spring Cloud 2021.0.0 (aka Jubilee) release train we're more than happy to announce the general availability of Spring Cloud Sleuth 3.1.0. In this blog post we'll describe the most notable released features.

Here is the list of most notable features, we'll elaborate on them in the subsequent parts of this post.

• JDBC #1930
• Tomcat Valve #1329
• Spring Vault #1952
• Automatic tag table generation for documentation #1950
• Spring Cloud Deployer #1947
• R2DBC #1524
• Kafka #2013 and Reactor Kafka #1708
• Spring TX #1941
• Spring Batch #1904
• RSocket #1677
• Spring Cloud Task #1903
• Spring Cloud Config #1915
• Spring Cloud CircuitBreaker Reactive #1910
• Cassandra #1974
• Spring Session #1961
• Spring Security #2011
• Prometheus Exemplars #2039
• Spring Cloud Stream Reactive #2038
• Reactive Mongo #2044
• Abstracted Redis instrumentation #2046
• Custom Actuator for storing traces #1879
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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of the Spring Cloud 2021.0 Release Train, codename Jubilee, is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2021.0 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2021.0 Release Train

RC1 is compatible with Spring Boot 2.6.0-RC1

See the project page for all the issues and pull requests included in this release.

Spring Cloud Commons

• Adds support for per LoadBalancer client properties. (issue)
• Adds X-Forwarded-* headers when using load-balanced RestTemplate. (issue)
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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that Service Release 3 of the Spring Cloud 2020.0 Release Train (2020.0.3) is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2020.0 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2020.0.3 Release Train

The biggest change in this release was support for Spring Boot 2.5. Besides that, this release is primarily for bug fixes and dependency upgrades.

See all of the included issues and pull requests at the Github project.

Spring Cloud Commons

• Added the possibility to disable load-balancing by property (#940)
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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Service Release 4 (SR4) of the Spring Cloud Finchley Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the Finchley release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the Finchley Release Train

Spring Cloud Commons

Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud Vault

Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud Config

Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud Gateway

Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud Netflix

Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud Sleuth

Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud Consul

Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud Contract

Bug Fixes

The following modules were updated as part of…

Spring Cloud Pipelines is a GitHub project that tries to solve the following problems:

• Creation of a common deployment pipeline

• Propagation of good testing and deployment practices

• Reducing the time required to deploy a feature to production.

The first commit took place on 31-08-2016. Since then, we have gotten a lot of feedback from the community related to the suggested deployment pipeline and its concrete visualisations. Over those two years, the most important features we have managed to build are:

• Opinionated deployment pipeline setup

• Scripts for the pipeline, to verify backward compatibility of your project and allow zero-downtime deployment

• Support for PHP, .NET, NodeJS, and JVM (Maven & Gradle) projects

• Deployment option for Cloud Foundry

• Deployment option for Kubernetes

• Deployment option via Ansible

• Pipeline visualisation in Jenkins by using Jenkins Job DSL

• Pipeline visualisation in Jenkins by using Jenkinsfile

• Pipeline visualisation in Concourse

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On behalf of the Spring Cloud team, it is my pleasure to announce a new milestone release of Spring Cloud Pipelines - 1.0.0.M8.

What’s new?

This release adds a lot of new features and quality and testing improvements. As for main features, we’ve added support for a project with multiple modules, and for mono-repos (projects with standalone application sources in it). As for quality and testing, we’re approaching 200 Bash tests (we’ve written missing tests for the Concourse pipeline). We’ve started publishing the project’s sources as a downloadable artifact. That way instead of cloning the repo or downloading the ~25mb archive, you can fetch around 150kb of sources. The docs for 1.0.0.M8…

This article contains a short reminder of what Contract Testing is, how Spring Cloud Contract implements it, and how Spring Cloud Contract can be used in a polyglot world.

What is Contract Testing

In order to increase the certainty that our systems behave properly, we write different types of tests. According to the test pyramid the main types of tests are unit, integration, and UI. The more complex the tests, the more time and effort they require and the more brittle they become.

In a distributed system, one of the most frequent problems is testing integrations between applications. Let’s assume that your service sends a REST request to another application. When using Spring Boot, you can write a @SpringBootTest in which you test that behavior. You set up a Spring context, you prepare a request to be sent…​ and where do you send it? You haven’t started the other application, so you get a Connection Refused…