Pro Spring Boot 2: An Authoritative Guide to Building Microservices, Web and Enterprise Applications, and Best Practices

Appendix A: Spring Boot CLI

This chapter discussed a Spring Boot tool that can help you create prototypes and production-ready applications. This tool is part of the Spring Boot installation that you performed in the first chapters. This is not a Maven or Gradle plugin or dependency.

I’m talking about the Spring Boot CLI (command-line interface). In the previous chapters, you learned that you can get the CLI from the binary installation at http://repo.spring.io/release/org/springframework/boot/spring-boot-cli/ . Or, if you are using a Mac/Linux, you can use Homebrew ( http://brew.sh/ ) with the following command.

$ brew tap pivotal/tap

$ brew install springboot

If you are using Linux, you can use the SDKMAN tool ( http://sdkman.io/ ) and ...