Summary

In this chapter, we have covered many topics, such as what a typical inner development loop is and its importance. We have also discussed how both the inner and outer development loops are different, and then we explored whether the CI/CD process can act as a replacement for the inner development loop.

We then discussed the steps involved in the traditional application development inner loop and we covered tools such as Spring Developer Tools and JRebel, which make the application development a lot easier. To explain this further, we created a simple Spring Boot web MVC application. Finally, in the last section, we covered the container-native application development inner loop. We also covered the steps involved in container-native application development.

In this chapter, the focus was on introducing you to concepts such as inner and outer development. You can use Spring Boot Developer Tools and JRebel to accelerate/automate your traditional application development life cycle.

In the next chapter, we will cover the problems a developer faces while developing an application with Kubernetes.