Writing a REST Service with Spring Boot

External

• https://spring.io/guides/gs/rest-service/
• https://spring.io/guides/tutorials/rest/
• https://www.baeldung.com/spring-boot-testing

Internal

• Spring Boot

Overview

This article describes assembling a simple REST service with Spring Boot, from scratch. The code can be compiled, executed locally, packaged as an OCI container and then deployed in Kubernetes with Helm.

The code is available under:

https://github.com/ovidiuf/playground/tree/master/spring/smoke

More ideas: "asset-uploader" under playground/misc/b23Ts.

Prerequisites

The following tools will need to be installed on the development system:

• Java 11 or newer
• gradle
• IntelliJ IDEA

Initialize the Project with Spring Initializr

The project will be initialized with Spring Initializer, from IntelliJ IDEA. Follow the procedure described here:

Create a New Spring Boot Project with Spring Initializr

Spring Boot Dependencies

• Spring Web.