What is Spring Cloud?

Add a link to Netflix OSS. The Spring Cloud project is an umbrella project from the Spring team, which implements a set of common patterns required by distributed systems as a set of easy-to-use Java Spring libraries. Despite its name, Spring Cloud by itself is not a cloud solution. Rather, it provides a number of capabilities, which are essential when developing applications targeting cloud deployments that adhere to the Twelve-Factor Application principles. By using Spring Cloud, developers just need to focus on building business capabilities using Spring Boot, and leverage the distributed, fault-tolerant, and self-healing capabilities available out-of-the-box from Spring Cloud.

The Spring Cloud solutions are agnostic to the deployment environment and can be developed and deployed on a desktop PC or in an elastic cloud. The cloud-ready solutions, which are developed using Spring Cloud, are also agnostic, and portable across many cloud providers, such as Cloud Foundry...