Spring Boot CLI provides Spring Boot command line features for Spring Cloud. You can write Groovy scripts to run Spring Cloud component applications (e.g. @EnableEurekaServer). You can also easily do things like encryption and decryption to support Spring Cloud Config clients with secret configuration values. With the Launcher CLI you can launch services like Eureka, Zipkin, Config Server conveniently all at once from the command line (very useful at development time).

Note
Spring Cloud is released under the non-restrictive Apache 2.0 license. If you would like to contribute to this section of the documentation or if you find an error, please find the source code and issue trackers in the project at github.

Installation

To install, make sure you have Spring Boot CLI (1.5.2 or better):

$ spring version
Spring CLI v1.5.3.RELEASE

E.g. for SDKMan users

$ sdk install springboot 1.5.3.RELEASE
$ sdk use springboot 1.5.3.RELEASE

and install the Spring Cloud plugin

$ mvn install
$ spring install org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-cli:1.3.3.BUILD-SNAPSHOT
Important
Prerequisites: to use the encryption and decryption features you need the full-strength JCE installed in your JVM (it’s not there by default). You can download the "Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy Files" from Oracle, and follow instructions for installation (essentially replace the 2 policy files in the JRE lib/security directory with the ones that you downloaded).

Running Spring Cloud Services in Development

The Launcher CLI can be used to run common services like Eureka, Config Server etc. from the command line. To list the available services you can do spring cloud --list, and to launch a default set of services just spring cloud. To choose the services to deploy, just list them on the command line, e.g.

$ spring cloud eureka configserver h2 kafka zipkin

Summary of supported deployables:

Service Name Address Description

eureka

Eureka Server

http://localhost:8761

Eureka server for service registration and discovery. All the other services show up in its catalog by default.

configserver

Config Server

http://localhost:8888

Spring Cloud Config Server running in the "native" profile and serving configuration from the local directory ./launcher

h2

H2 Database

http://localhost:9095 (console), jdbc:h2:tcp://localhost:9096/{data}

Relation database service. Use a file path for {data} (e.g. ./target/test) when you connect. Remember that you can add ;MODE=MYSQL or ;MODE=POSTGRESQL to connect with compatibility to other server types.

kafka

Kafka Broker

http://localhost:9091 (actuator endpoints), localhost:9092

hystrixdashboard

Hystrix Dashboard

http://localhost:7979

Any Spring Cloud app that declares Hystrix circuit breakers publishes metrics on /hystrix.stream. Type that address into the dashboard to visualize all the metrics,

dataflow

Dataflow Server

http://localhost:9393

Spring Cloud Dataflow server with UI at /admin-ui. Connect the Dataflow shell to target at root path.

zipkin

Zipkin Server

http://localhost:9411

Zipkin Server with UI for visualizing traces. Stores span data in memory and accepts them via HTTP POST of JSON data.

Each of these apps can be configured using a local YAML file with the same name (in the current working directory or a subdirectory called "config" or in ~/.spring-cloud). E.g. in configserver.yml you might want to do something like this to locate a local git repository for the backend:

configserver.yml
spring:
  profiles:
    active: git
  cloud:
    config:
      server:
        git:
          uri: file://${user.home}/dev/demo/config-repo

Adding Additional Applications

Additional applications can be added to ./config/cloud.yml (not ./config.yml because that would replace the defaults), e.g. with

config/cloud.yml
spring:
  cloud:
    launcher:
      deployables:
        source:
          coordinates: maven://com.example:source:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
          port: 7000
        sink:
          coordinates: maven://com.example:sink:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
          port: 7001

when you list the apps:

$ spring cloud --list
source sink configserver dataflow eureka h2 hystrixdashboard kafka zipkin

(notice the additional apps at the start of the list).

Using RabbitMQ as a Message Broker

If you prefer to use RabbitMQ as the broker for the Bus messages in the services you run on the command line (and your own apps), then use the "rabbit" profile. Example:

$ spring cloud configserver eureka --profile=rabbit

What this does is enable a Spring profile in the deployer app (the one that reads the cloud.yml). If you look in the cloud.yml you will find that this profile sets a deployment property for all the apps that get launched, which changes the thin launcher profile to "rabbit" in each of the deployed apps. A thin launcher profile can change the classpath of the app when it runs, and in this way we can switch off Kafka and switch on RabbitMQ.

Switching the Deployed Apps to One per Process

The default bahaviour of the deployer app is to launch all the baby apps in the same process as itself (and hence they all share stdout, which is convenient). If you want to switch to one local process per app, you can use the deployer switch on the command line. Example:

$ spring cloud --deployer=local

The two deployer profiles that ship with Spring Cloud CLI are "local" and "thin" (the default), and they are both implemented as thin launcher profiles. In principle you could run with any implementation of the Spring Cloud AppDeployer by providing a different thin profile for the deployer.

See the Thin Luancher project for more information about profiles.

Writing Groovy Scripts and Running Applications

Spring Cloud CLI has support for most of the Spring Cloud declarative features, such as the @Enable* class of annotations. For example, here is a fully functional Eureka server

app.groovy
@EnableEurekaServer
class Eureka {}

which you can run from the command line like this

$ spring run app.groovy

To include additional dependencies, often it suffices just to add the appropriate feature-enabling annotation, e.g. @EnableConfigServer, @EnableOAuth2Sso or @EnableEurekaClient. To manually include a dependency you can use a @Grab with the special "Spring Boot" short style artifact co-ordinates, i.e. with just the artifact ID (no need for group or version information), e.g. to set up a client app to listen on AMQP for management events from the Spring CLoud Bus:

app.groovy
@Grab('spring-cloud-starter-bus-amqp')
@RestController
class Service {
  @RequestMapping('/')
  def home() { [message: 'Hello'] }
}

Encryption and Decryption

The Spring Cloud CLI comes with an "encrypt" and a "decrypt" command. Both accept arguments in the same form with a key specified as a mandatory "--key", e.g.

$ spring encrypt mysecret --key foo
682bc583f4641835fa2db009355293665d2647dade3375c0ee201de2a49f7bda
$ spring decrypt --key foo 682bc583f4641835fa2db009355293665d2647dade3375c0ee201de2a49f7bda
mysecret

To use a key in a file (e.g. an RSA public key for encyption) prepend the key value with "@" and provide the file path, e.g.

$ spring encrypt mysecret --key @${HOME}/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
AQAjPgt3eFZQXwt8tsHAVv/QHiY5sI2dRcR+...