Using Spring Boot 2 in cloud-native development

Providing service discovery for all microservices using Spring Cloud Kubernetes project

Injecting configuration settings into application pods using Kubernetes Config Maps and Secrets

Building application images using Docker and deploying them on Kubernetes using YAML configuration files

Using Spring Cloud Kubernetes together with Zuul proxy to expose a single Swagger API documentation for all microservices

Spring Cloud and Kubernetes may be threatened as competitive solutions when you build microservices environments. Such components like Eureka, Spring Cloud Config, or Zuul provided by Spring Cloud may be replaced by built-in Kubernetes objects like services, config maps, secrets, or ingresses. But even if you decide to use Kubernetes components instead of Spring Cloud you can take advantage of some interesting features provided throughout the whole Spring Cloud project.