Deploying Spring Boot Applications to Pivotal Cloud Foundry from STS

The example below shows how to use STS (Spring Tool Suite) to deploy a spring boot web application directly from the IDE itself. I created a basic spring boot web application using the template engine thymeleaf. The application isn't that fancy it simply displays a products page of some mock up Products. This blog entry just shows how you could deploy this to Pivotal Cloud Foundry from the IDE itself.

1. First create a Pivotal Cloud Foundry Server connection. The image blow shows the connection and one single application.

2. Right click on your Spring Boot application and select "Configure -> Enable as cloud foundry app"

3. Drag and Drop The project onto the Cloud Foundry Connection.

4. At this point a dialog appears asking for an application name as shown below.

5. Click Next

6. Select deployment options and click Next

7. Bind to existing services if you need to 

8. Click next

9. Click finish

At this point it will push the application to your Cloud Foundry Instance

Once complete the Console window in STS will show something as follows

Checking application - SpringBootWebCloudFoundry

Generating application archive

Creating application

Pushing application

Application successfully pushed

Starting and staging application

Got staging request for app with id bb3c63f5-c32d-4e27-a834-04076f2af35a

Updated app with guid bb3c63f5-c32d-4e27-a834-04076f2af35a ({"state"=>"STARTED"})

-----> Downloaded app package (12M)

-----> Java Buildpack Version: v2.4 (offline) | https://github.com/cloudfoundry/java-buildpack.git#7cdcf1a

-----> Downloading Open Jdk JRE 1.7.0_60 from http://download.run.pivotal.io/openjdk/lucid/x86_64/openjdk-1.7.0_60.tar.gz (found in cache)

       Expanding Open Jdk JRE to .java-buildpack/open_jdk_jre (0.9s)

-----> Downloading Spring Auto Reconfiguration 1.4.0_RELEASE from http://download.run.pivotal.io/auto-reconfiguration/auto-reconfiguration-1.4.0_RELEASE.jar (found in cache)

-----> Uploading droplet (43M)

Starting app instance (index 0) with guid bb3c63f5-c32d-4e27-a834-04076f2af35a

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 :: Spring Boot ::        (v1.1.9.RELEASE)

2014-12-03 11:09:50.434  INFO 32 --- [           main] loudProfileApplicationContextInitializer : Adding 'cloud' to list of active profiles

2014-12-03 11:09:50.447  INFO 32 --- [           main] pertySourceApplicationContextInitializer : Adding 'cloud' PropertySource to ApplicationContext

2014-12-03 11:09:50.497  INFO 32 --- [           main] nfigurationApplicationContextInitializer : Adding cloud service auto-reconfiguration to ApplicationContext

2014-12-03 11:09:50.521  INFO 32 --- [           main] apples.sts.web.Application               : Starting Application on 187dfn5m5ve with PID 32 (/home/vcap/app started by vcap in /home/vcap/app)

2014-12-03 11:09:50.577  INFO 32 --- [           main] ationConfigEmbeddedWebApplicationContext : Refreshing org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.AnnotationConfigEmbeddedWebApplicationContext@374d2f77: startup date [Wed Dec 03 11:09:50 UTC 2014]; root of context hierarchy

2014-12-03 11:09:50.930  WARN 32 --- [           main] .i.s.PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver : Skipping [/home/vcap/app/.java-buildpack/spring_auto_reconfiguration/spring_auto_reconfiguration-1.4.0_RELEASE.jar] because it does not denote a directory

2014-12-03 11:09:51.600  WARN 32 --- [           main] .i.s.PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver : Skipping [/home/vcap/app/.java-buildpack/spring_auto_reconfiguration/spring_auto_reconfiguration-1.4.0_RELEASE.jar] because it does not denote a directory

2014-12-03 11:09:52.349  INFO 32 --- [           main] urceCloudServiceBeanFactoryPostProcessor : Auto-reconfiguring beans of type javax.sql.DataSource

2014-12-03 11:09:52.358  INFO 32 --- [           main] urceCloudServiceBeanFactoryPostProcessor : No beans of type javax.sql.DataSource found. Skipping auto-reconfiguration.

2014-12-03 11:09:53.109  INFO 32 --- [           main] .t.TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory : Server initialized with port: 61097

2014-12-03 11:09:53.391  INFO 32 --- [           main] o.apache.catalina.core.StandardService   : Starting service Tomcat

2014-12-03 11:09:53.393  INFO 32 --- [           main] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine  : Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/7.0.56

2014-12-03 11:09:53.523  INFO 32 --- [ost-startStop-1] o.a.c.c.C.[Tomcat].[localhost].[/]       : Initializing Spring embedded WebApplicationContext

2014-12-03 11:09:53.524  INFO 32 --- [ost-startStop-1] o.s.web.context.ContextLoader            : Root WebApplicationContext: initialization completed in 2950 ms

2014-12-03 11:09:54.201  INFO 32 --- [ost-startStop-1] o.s.b.c.e.ServletRegistrationBean        : Mapping servlet: 'dispatcherServlet' to [/]

2014-12-03 11:09:54.205  INFO 32 --- [ost-startStop-1] o.s.b.c.embedded.FilterRegistrationBean  : Mapping filter: 'hiddenHttpMethodFilter' to: [/*]

2014-12-03 11:09:54.521  INFO 32 --- [           main] o.s.w.s.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping  : Mapped URL path [/**/favicon.ico] onto handler of type [class org.springframework.web.servlet.resource.ResourceHttpRequestHandler]

2014-12-03 11:09:54.611  INFO 32 --- [           main] s.w.s.m.m.a.RequestMappingHandlerMapping : Mapped "{[/],methods=[],params=[],headers=[],consumes=[],produces=[],custom=[]}" onto public java.lang.String apples.sts.web.WelcomeController.welcome(org.springframework.ui.Model)

2014-12-03 11:09:54.612  INFO 32 --- [           main] s.w.s.m.m.a.RequestMappingHandlerMapping : Mapped "{[/products],methods=[],params=[],headers=[],consumes=[],produces=[],custom=[]}" onto public java.lang.String apples.sts.web.ProductController.listProducts(org.springframework.ui.Model)

2014-12-03 11:09:54.615  INFO 32 --- [           main] s.w.s.m.m.a.RequestMappingHandlerMapping : Mapped "{[/error],methods=[],params=[],headers=[],consumes=[],produces=[text/html],custom=[]}" onto public org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.BasicErrorController.errorHtml(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest)

2014-12-03 11:09:54.616  INFO 32 --- [           main] s.w.s.m.m.a.RequestMappingHandlerMapping : Mapped "{[/error],methods=[],params=[],headers=[],consumes=[],produces=[],custom=[]}" onto public org.springframework.http.ResponseEntity> org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.BasicErrorController.error(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest)

2014-12-03 11:09:54.640  INFO 32 --- [           main] o.s.w.s.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping  : Mapped URL path [/**] onto handler of type [class org.springframework.web.servlet.resource.ResourceHttpRequestHandler]

2014-12-03 11:09:54.641  INFO 32 --- [           main] o.s.w.s.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping  : Mapped URL path [/webjars/**] onto handler of type [class org.springframework.web.servlet.resource.ResourceHttpRequestHandler]

2014-12-03 11:09:55.077  INFO 32 --- [           main] o.s.j.e.a.AnnotationMBeanExporter        : Registering beans for JMX exposure on startup

2014-12-03 11:09:55.156  INFO 32 --- [           main] s.b.c.e.t.TomcatEmbeddedServletContainer : Tomcat started on port(s): 61097/http

2014-12-03 11:09:55.167  INFO 32 --- [           main] apples.sts.web.Application               : Started Application in 5.918 seconds (JVM running for 6.712)

You can also view the deployed application details in STS by double clicking on it as shown below.