What you need for this book

Chapter 3, Building Microservices with Spring Boot, introduces Spring Boot, which requires the following software components to test the code:

• JDK 1.8
• Spring Tool Suite 3.8.2 (STS)
• Maven 3.3.1
• Spring Framework 5.0.0.RC1
• Spring Boot 2.0.0. SNAPSHOT
• spring-boot-cli-2.0.0.SNAPSHOT-bin.zip
• Rabbit MQ 3.5.6
• FakeSMTP 2.0

In Chapter 7, Scale Microservices with Spring Cloud Components, you will learn about the Spring Cloud project. This requires the following software component, in addition to those previously mentioned:

• Spring Cloud Dalston RELEASE

In Chapter 8, Logging and Monitoring Microservices, we will see how centralized logging can be implemented for microservices. This requires the following software stack:

• elasticsearch-1.5.2
• kibana-4.0.2-darwin-x64
• logstash-2.1.2

Chapter 9, Containerizing Microservices with Docker, demonstrates how we can use Docker for microservices deployments. This requires the following software components:

• Docker version (17.03.1-ce)
• Docker Hub

Chapter 10, Scaling Dockerized Microservices with Mesos and Marathon, uses Mesos and Marathon to deploy Dockerized microservices into an autoscalable cloud. The following software components are required for this purpose:

• Mesos version 1.2.0
• Docker version 17.03.1-ce
• Marathon version 3.4.9