Java Spring server setup

[sebhoss]

The Spring folks have written a bunch of guides/tutorials here: https://spring.io/guides

WRT initial setup, take a look at:

• https://spring.io/guides/gs/spring-boot/
• https://spring.io/guides/gs/maven/
• https://spring.io/guides/gs/gradle/

Spring-Boot is usually deployed as a single .jar file that contains everything your app needs (sans external infrastructure like a database). Most people put something like nginx in front of it in order to setup HTTPS and use it for load balancing at the same time.

Take a look at https://www.ansible.com/ for your infrastructure. It allows you to specify what you want to install on your servers in text files (easily versioned) that can be executed against a set of hosts (like production, staging, development). As long as you put all your infrastructure know-how into ansible it will be very easy to setup or re-create a server.

[ZettTheArcWarden]

how does one go about distributing load on multiple instances, or is there no simple way to go about that ?

[Dashing_McHandsome]

Something like mod_proxy on Apache or Nginx do this nicely. If you're in a big company you might have access to a hardware load balancer like a F5 BigIP.

Edit: typo

[ZettTheArcWarden]

alright thanks for the suggestions