Udaya Veeramreddygari

The COVID-19 pandemic changed everything about how we work, and Spring Boot 2.3 arrived at exactly the right time with features that made remote development and cloud-native deployment smoother than ever. As teams scattered to home offices around the world, the need for efficient, containerized applications became more critical than ever. The addition of Cloud Native Buildpacks support eliminated the need for custom Dockerfiles in many cases. This was particularly valuable for remote teams where consistency across different development environments was crucial. bash # No Dockerfile needed! ./mvnw spring-boot:build-image   # Custom configuration ./mvnw spring-boot:build-image \   -Dspring-boot.build-image.imageName=myregistry/myapp:latest \   -Dspring-boot.build-image.builder=paketobuildpacks/builder:base The enhanced graceful shutdown support became essential as teams deployed applications to cloud environments with aggressive resource management. No m...

Kubernetes 1.18 & GitOps - Infrastructure as Code Matures As the world shifted to remote work in 2020, the importance of declarative, version-controlled infrastructure became more apparent than ever. Kubernetes 1.18 brought stability improvements and features that made GitOps not just possible, but the preferred way to manage cloud-native applications. The idea that infrastructure and application deployments should be driven entirely by Git commits wasn't new, but 2020 made it essential. When teams couldn't walk over to the operations desk to troubleshoot a deployment, having every change tracked and reversible became critical. yaml # GitOps repository structure infrastructure/ ├ ── environments/ │    ├ ── development/ │    │    ├ ── namespace.yaml │    │    ├ ── applications/ │    │    └── monitoring/ │    ├ ── staging/ │    └── production/ ├ ── applications/ │ ...