This chapter looks at the essential elements of building your first cloud-native application. We will do the minimal number of steps required to get a microservice running in our development environment.
If you are an experienced Java developer using IDEs such as Eclipse, you will find yourself on familiar turf. Though most of it will be similar to building traditional applications, there are a few nuances, which we will discuss in this chapter and summarize at the end.
The setup steps to get development going will vary based on the type of developer:
- For hobbyist, self-employed, or working-from-home developers with open access to the internet, cloud development is relatively simple.
- for enterprise developers who work on projects for customers or business teams in a closed environment and has to access the internet through a proxy,...
