Azure Spring Apps product updates in Q2 2023

The following update announces a new plan:

• Azure Spring Apps Consumption and Dedicated plan: This plan offers you customizable compute options (including memory optimization), single tenancy, and high availability to help you achieve price predictability, cost savings, and performance for running Spring applications at scale. For more information, see Unleash Spring apps in a flex environment with Azure Spring Apps Consumption and Dedicated plans.

The following update is now available in the Consumption and Basic/Standard plans:

• Azure Developer CLI (azd) for Azure Spring Apps: Azure Developer CLI (azd) is an open-source tool that accelerates the time it takes for you to get your application from local development environment to Azure. You can now initialize, package, provision, and deploy a Spring application to Azure Spring Apps with only a few commands. Try it out using Quickstart: Deploy your first web application to Azure Spring Apps.

The following updates are now available in the Enterprise plan:

• Shareable build result among Azure Spring Apps Enterprise instances (preview): This update enables you to have full visibility for Azure Spring Apps built images through bring-your-own Azure Container Registry (ACR) to support the following scenarios:

  • Build and test in a PREPROD environment and deploy to multiple PROD environments with the verified images.
  • Orchestrate a secure CICD pipeline to plug in any steps between build and deploy actions.

  For more information, see How to deploy polyglot apps in the Azure Spring Apps Enterprise plan and Use Azure Spring Apps CI/CD with GitHub Actions.

• High Availability support for App Accelerator and App Live View: App Accelerator and App Live View now support multiple replicas to offer high availability. For more information, see Configure Tanzu Dev Tools in the Azure Spring Apps Enterprise plan.

• Spring Cloud Gateway auto scaling: Spring Cloud Gateway now supports auto scaling to better serve the elastic traffic without the hassle of manual scaling. For more information, see the Set up autoscale settings for VMware Spring Cloud Gateway in Azure CLI section of Configure VMware Spring Cloud Gateway.

• Application Configuration Service – polyglot support: This update enables you to use Application Configuration Service to manage external configurations for any polyglot app, such as .NET, Go, and so on. For more information, see the Polyglot support section of Use Application Configuration Service for Tanzu.

• Application Configuration Service – enhanced performance and security: This update provides a dramatic performance enhancement in Git monitoring operations. This enhancement enables faster updates for configuration and certification verification over TLS between Application Configuration Service and Git repos. For more information, see Use Application Configuration Service for Tanzu.

• 1000 app instance support (preview): We've increased the maximum app instance count for one Azure Spring Apps Enterprise service instance to 1000 to support large-scale microservice clusters. For more information, see Quotas and service plans for Azure Spring Apps.

• App Accelerator certificate verification: This update provides certification verification over TLS between App Accelerator and Git repos. For more information, see the Configure accelerators with a self-signed certificate section of Use VMware Tanzu Application Accelerator with the Azure Spring Apps Enterprise plan.

To help you get started, we have monthly FREE grants on all tiers – 50 vCPU Hours and 100 memory GB Hours per tier. 

Additional Resources 

• Learn using anMS Learn moduleorself-paced workshopon GitHub 
• Deployyour first Spring app to Azure! 
• Deploythe demo Fitness Store Spring Boot app to Azure 
• Deploythe demo Animal Rescue Spring Boot app to Azure 
• Learnmoreabout implementing solutions on Azure Spring Apps 
• Deploy Spring Boot apps by leveraging enterprise best practices –Azure Spring Apps Reference Architecture 
• Migrate yourSpring Boot,Spring Cloud, andTomcatapplications to Azure Spring Apps 
• Wire Spring applications tointeract with Azure services 

To learn more about Spring Cloud Azure, we invite you to visit the following links: 

• Reach out to us onStackOverfloworGitHub. 
• Reference Documentation 
• Conceptual Documentation 
• Code Samples 
• Spring Version Mapping