We're very pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Azure 5.0 is now generally available.
This major release includes the following features, improvements, and documentation updates:
To try Spring Cloud Azure 5.0, simply add the following dependency BOM to your project:
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.azure.spring</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-cloud-azure-dependencies</artifactId>
<version>5.0.0</version>
<type>pom</type>
<scope>import</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
Spring Boot 3 and Spring Cloud 2022.0.0 bring many exciting features, requiring some significant changes to Spring Cloud Azure to fully leverage them.
1. Deprecated API upgrades, Azure/azure-sdk-for-java#31543:
2. Spring Security 6 dependencies upgrades, Azure/azure-sdk-for-java#31808:
3. Class package path updates and API polishing/refinement, including reducing the number of public APIs: Azure/azure-sdk-for-java#32552 , Azure/azure-sdk-for-java#32582 , Azure/azure-sdk-for-java#32597 , Azure/azure-sdk-for-java#32616 , Azure/azure-sdk-for-java#32712 , Azure/azure-sdk-for-java#32716 .
The following features are planned for future releases:
** Currently available for beta testing, please visit Spring Cloud Azure Native Reachability client library for Java to give it a try.
Stay tuned for updates!
Using username/password credentials to access one application from another significantly increases overall risk profile. An unauthorized user can gain access to the application using a connection string accidentally checked into source control, sent through an insecure email, pasted into the wrong chat, or otherwise illegitimately obtained. Updating your application to use passwordless connections provides dramatically improved security.
Passwordless connections for Java applications to Azure databases and eventing services are generally available with Spring Cloud Azure 5.0, enabling you to access services securely without passing usernames and passwords over the wire.
These Azure Services currently support passwordless connections:
Azure Service |
Quickstart |
Migration guide |
Azure Database for MySQL |
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Azure Database for PostgreSQL |
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Azure SQL Database |
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Event Hubs – Kafka |
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Storage |
Our passwordless journey does not end here. Support for additional Azure services is planned and under development.
The Azure Support module in Spring Initializr now supports Spring Boot 3, so you can begin your Spring Cloud Azure 5.0 journey directly from the Initializr.
Good documentation is a key part of Spring Cloud Azure. We’ve created a new online resource, Azure for Spring developers, to help Spring developers code, deploy, and scale their Spring applications on Azure. Whether developers are familiar with Spring and unfamiliar with Azure Service or the other way around – or new to both! – they can come to this site to learn. Content will be expanded and updated continuously.
In addition, we’ve redesigned the Spring Cloud Azure documentation to help developers more easily find what they need, combined with useful scenarios.
Feedback and contributions are always welcome. Please contact us on StackOverflow or GitHub.
To learn more about Spring Cloud Azure, please visit the following links:
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