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Spring Boot Integration: Dockerizing, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka & Microservices

This chapter applies everything from Chapters 1-8 to the stack most readers actually run day to day: a Spring Boot service backed by PostgreSQL, Redis, and Kafka, deployed as containers and composed t

Learning objectives

  • Build a correctly-structured multi-stage Dockerfile for a Spring Boot application.
  • Wire a Spring Boot service to PostgreSQL, Redis, and Kafka containers using Compose's service-name networking.
  • Explain how Spring profiles let the same container image behave differently across local, staging, and production environments.

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Spring Boot Integration: Dockerizing, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka & Microservices

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