Quickstart: Build and deploy apps to Azure Spring Apps

Article
10/25/2024

Note

The Basic, Standard, and Enterprise plans will be deprecated starting from mid-March, 2025, with a 3 year retirement period. We recommend transitioning to Azure Container Apps. For more information, see the Azure Spring Apps retirement announcement.

The Standard consumption and dedicated plan will be deprecated starting September 30, 2024, with a complete shutdown after six months. We recommend transitioning to Azure Container Apps.

This article explains how to build and deploy Spring applications to Azure Spring Apps. You can use Azure CLI, the Maven plugin, or Intellij. This article describes each alternative.

Prerequisites

Completion of the previous quickstarts in this series:
- Provision an Azure Spring Apps service instance.
- Set up Azure Spring Apps Config Server.
JDK 17
Maven 3.0 or above
An Azure subscription. If you don't have a subscription, create a Trial before you begin.
Optionally, Azure CLI version 2.45.0 or higher. Install the Azure Spring Apps extension with the following command: az extension add --name spring
Optionally, the Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ.

Build the Spring applications locally

Use the following commands to clone the sample repository, navigate to the sample folder, and then build the project.

git clone https://github.com/azure-samples/spring-petclinic-microservices
cd spring-petclinic-microservices
mvn clean package -DskipTests -Denv=cloud

Compiling the project takes 5-10 minutes. When the project is compiled, you should have individual JAR files for each service in their respective folders.

Create and deploy apps on Azure Spring Apps

Use the following steps to create and deploys apps on Azure Spring Apps using the CLI.

If you didn't run the following commands in the previous quickstarts, run them now to set the CLI defaults.
```
az configure --defaults group=<resource-group-name> spring=<service-name>
```

Create the two core Spring applications for PetClinic: api-gateway and customers-service.

az spring app create \
    --name api-gateway \
    --runtime-version Java_17 \
    --instance-count 1 \
    --memory 2Gi \
    --assign-endpoint
az spring app create \
    --name customers-service \
    --runtime-version Java_17 \
    --instance-count 1 \
    --memory 2Gi

Deploy the JAR files built in the previous step.

az spring app deploy \
    --name api-gateway \
    --artifact-path spring-petclinic-api-gateway/target/api-gateway-3.0.1.jar \
    --jvm-options="-Xms2048m -Xmx2048m"
az spring app deploy \
    --name customers-service \
    --artifact-path spring-petclinic-customers-service/target/customers-service-3.0.1.jar \
    --jvm-options="-Xms2048m -Xmx2048m"

Query the app status after deployments with the following command.

az spring app list --output table

This command produces output similar to the following example:

Name               Location    ResourceGroup    Production Deployment    Public Url                                           Provisioning Status    CPU    Memory    Running Instance    Registered Instance    Persistent Storage
-----------------  ----------  ---------------  -----------------------  ---------------------------------------------------  ---------------------  -----  --------  ------------------  ---------------------  --------------------
api-gateway        chinanorth2      xxxxxx-sp         default                  https://<service name>-api-gateway.microservices.azure.cn   Succeeded              1      2         1/1                 1/1                    -
customers-service  chinanorth2      <service name>         default                                                                       Succeeded              1      2         1/1                 1/1                    -

Verify the services

Access api-gateway and customers-service from a browser with the Public Url shown previously, in the format of https://<service name>-api-gateway.microservices.azure.cn.

Tip

To troubleshot deployments, you can use the following command to get logs streaming in real time whenever the app is running az spring app logs --name <app name> --follow.

Deploy extra apps

To get the PetClinic app functioning with all features like Admin Server, Visits, and Veterinarians, deploy the other apps with following commands:

az spring app create \
    --name admin-server \
    --runtime-version Java_17 \
    --instance-count 1 \
    --memory 2Gi \
    --assign-endpoint
az spring app create \
    --name vets-service \
    --runtime-version Java_17 \
    --instance-count 1 \
    --memory 2Gi
az spring app create \
    --name visits-service \
    --runtime-version Java_17 \
    --instance-count 1 \
    --memory 2Gi
az spring app deploy \
    --name admin-server \
    --runtime-version Java_17 \
    --artifact-path spring-petclinic-admin-server/target/admin-server-3.0.1.jar \
    --jvm-options="-Xms1536m -Xmx1536m"
az spring app deploy \
    --name vets-service \
    --runtime-version Java_17 \
    --artifact-path spring-petclinic-vets-service/target/vets-service-3.0.1.jar \
    --jvm-options="-Xms1536m -Xmx1536m"
az spring app deploy \
    --name visits-service \
    --runtime-version Java_17 \
    --artifact-path spring-petclinic-visits-service/target/visits-service-3.0.1.jar \
    --jvm-options="-Xms1536m -Xmx1536m"

Build the Spring applications locally

Use the following commands to clone the sample repository, navigate to the sample folder, and then build the project.

git clone https://github.com/azure-samples/spring-petclinic-microservices
cd spring-petclinic-microservices
mvn clean package -DskipTests -Denv=cloud

Compiling the project takes 5-10 minutes. When the project is compiled, you should have individual JAR files for each service in their respective folders.

Generate configurations and deploy to Azure Spring Apps

The following steps show you how to generate configurations and deploy to Azure Spring Apps:

Go to the spring-petclinic-customers-service folder. Generate configurations by running the following command. If you've already signed-in with Azure CLI, the command automatically picks up the credentials. Otherwise, it signs you in using a prompt with instructions. For more information, see Authentication on the azure-maven-plugins wiki.
```
mvn com.microsoft.azure:azure-spring-apps-maven-plugin:1.19.0:config -DappName=customers-service
```
You're asked to provide the following values:
- Subscription: The subscription you used to create an Azure Spring Apps instance.
- Service Instance: The name of your Azure Spring Apps instance.
- Public endpoint: Whether to assign a public endpoint to the app. Select No.

Verify that the appName elements in the POM files are correct:

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>com.microsoft.azure</groupId>
            <artifactId>azure-spring-apps-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.19.0</version>
            <configuration>
                <subscriptionId>xxxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx</subscriptionId>
                <clusterName>v-spr-cld</clusterName>
                <appName>customers-service</appName>

The POM now contains the plugin dependencies and configurations.

Deploy the apps by using the following command:
```
mvn azure-spring-apps:deploy
```
Go to the spring-petclinic-api-gateway folder. Run the following commands to generate the configuration and deploy api-gateway. Select yes for Public endpoint.
```
mvn com.microsoft.azure:azure-spring-apps-maven-plugin:1.19.0:config -DappName=api-gateway
mvn azure-spring-apps:deploy
```

Verify the services

A successful deployment command returns a URL in the form: https://<service name>-spring-petclinic-api-gateway.microservices.azure.cn. Use it to navigate to the running service.

You can also navigate the Azure portal to find the URL.

Navigate to the service.
Select Apps.
Select api-gateway.
Find the URL on the api-gateway | Overview page.

Deploy extra apps

To get the PetClinic app functioning with all sections like Admin Server, Visits, and Veterinarians, you can deploy the other Spring applications. Rerun the configuration command and select the following applications.

admin-server
vets-service
visits-service

Correct the app names in each pom.xml file for these modules, and then run the deploy command again.

Import sample project in IntelliJ

Use the following steps to import the sample project in IntelliJ.

Download and unzip the source repository for this tutorial, or clone it using Git: git clone https://github.com/azure-samples/spring-petclinic-microservices
Open the IntelliJ Welcome dialog and select Import Project to open the import wizard.
Select the spring-petclinic-microservices folder.

Deploy the api-gateway app to Azure Spring Apps

To deploy to Azure, you must sign in with your Azure account with Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ and choose your subscription. For sign-in details, see Create a Hello World web app for Azure App Service using IntelliJ.

Right-click your project in IntelliJ project explorer, and select Azure -> Deploy to Azure Spring Apps.
In the Name field, append :api-gateway to the existing Name.
In the Artifact textbox, select spring-petclinic-api-gateway-3.0.1.
In the Subscription textbox, verify your subscription.
In the Spring Apps textbox, select the instance of Azure Spring Apps that you created in Provision Azure Spring Apps instance.
In the App: textbox, select Create app....
Enter api-gateway, then select OK.
Set Public Endpoint to Enable.
Set Memory to 2.0Gi and JVM options to -Xms2048m -Xmx2048m.
In the Before launch section of the dialog, double-click Run Maven Goal.
In the Working directory textbox, navigate to the spring-petclinic-microservices/spring-petclinic-api-gateway folder.
In the Command line textbox, enter package -DskipTests. Select OK.
Start the deployment by selecting the Run button at the bottom of the Deploy Azure Spring Apps app dialog. The plug-in runs the command mvn package on the api-gateway app and deploys the JAR file generated by the package command.

Deploy customers-service and other apps to Azure Spring Apps

Repeat the previous steps to deploy customers-service and other Pet Clinic apps to Azure Spring Apps:

Modify the Name and Artifact to identify the customers-service app.
In the App: textbox, select Create app... to create customers-service app.
Verify that the Public Endpoint option is set to Disabled.
In the Before launch section of the dialog, switch the Working directory to the petclinic/customers-service folder.
Start the deployment by selecting the Run button at the bottom of the Deploy Azure Spring Apps app dialog.

Verify the services

Navigate to the URL of the form: https://<service name>-spring-petclinic-api-gateway.microservices.azure.cn

You can also navigate the Azure portal to find the URL.

Navigate to the service
Select Apps
Select api-gateway
Find the URL on the api-gateway | Overview page

Deploy extra apps

Other Spring applications included in this sample can be deployed similarly.

admin-server
vets-service
visits-service

Clean up resources

If you plan to continue working with subsequent quickstarts and tutorials, you might want to leave these resources in place. When no longer needed, delete the resource group, which deletes the resources in the resource group. To delete the resource group by using Azure CLI, use the following commands:

echo "Enter the Resource Group name:" &&
read resourceGroupName &&
az group delete --name $resourceGroupName &&
echo "Press [ENTER] to continue ..."

Next steps

Quickstart: Set up a Log Analytics workspace

Quickstart: Build and deploy apps to Azure Spring Apps

Prerequisites

Build the Spring applications locally

Create and deploy apps on Azure Spring Apps

Verify the services

Deploy extra apps

Additional resources