{"id":3222,"date":"2017-12-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/bringing-hybrid-cloud-java-and-spring-apps-to-azure-and-azure-stack"},"modified":"2025-06-27T02:38:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T09:38:45","slug":"bringing-hybrid-cloud-java-and-spring-apps-to-azure-and-azure-stack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/bringing-hybrid-cloud-java-and-spring-apps-to-azure-and-azure-stack\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing hybrid cloud Java and Spring apps to Azure and Azure Stack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Microsoft is proud to be a platinum sponsor of Pivotal\u2019s SpringOne Platform<\/a> conference, which started yesterday in San Francisco. SpringOne Platform is a premier destination for enterprise developers and architects who are passionate about cloud-native applications, and IT leaders that have seen first-hand how cloud-native and serverless programming are transforming organizations in the cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Microsoft, we believe that our role doesn\u2019t stop at offering a great platform for cloud-native apps. It\u2019s equally important that developers can deliver high quality software rapidly to their teams, and that\u2019s why we\u2019ve been rethinking what the developer experience for cloud-native applications looks like. We\u2019re working with partners and the ecosystem to offer the most productive tools for developers to build agile applications across multiple environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With that goal in mind, today at SpringOne Platform we\u2019re proud to join Pivotal in announcing improved support for Pivotal Cloud Foundry across Azure and Azure<\/strong> Stack<\/strong>. This is an important milestone in our partnership with Pivotal and in making our hybrid cloud, both public and private, a leading platform to run enterprise Java and Spring applications. Additionally, we are taking the opportunity to unveil three new products and updates to improve support for Java and Spring on Azure <\/strong>\u2014 enhancements to Java Azure Functions, including remote debugging support, and new Spring and Java Azure Functions extensions for Visual Studio Code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pivotal Cloud Foundry lands on Azure Stack<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

During today\u2019s keynote, Pivotal announced that Pivotal Cloud Foundry is officially coming to <\/strong>Azure Stack<\/strong><\/a> in beta, expanding Azure\u2019s longstanding support for Pivotal Cloud Foundry to include hybrid scenarios. The addition of Azure Stack support enables you to deploy apps written using any language and framework, including Java and Spring, to the public or private cloud securely and easily with Pivotal Cloud Foundry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pivotal and Microsoft have been working together to offer a consist experience to avoid \u201csnowflake environments\u201d. For example, Pivotal Cloud Foundry uses the same operations manager and provisioning agent for Azure Stack and the public Azure cloud. You can also use the Open Service Broker for Azure<\/strong> in Pivotal Cloud Foundry on Azure Stack to connect to services on the public Azure cloud like Cosmos DB<\/a>, Service Bus, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lighter image for Pivotal Cloud Foundry on the Azure Marketplace<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We know that the Azure Marketplace is a valuable way for you to provision software in the cloud. That\u2019s why we\u2019re pleased that Pivotal chose the Azure Marketplace as the first place to offer a new,<\/strong> lightweight image of Pivotal Cloud Foundry<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Small Footprint Runtime<\/em> offers very similar functionality to the traditional image, but requires 70% fewer VMs. This is great for small environments like proof-of-concepts, edge locations, or departmental solutions that want velocity, but with the smallest infrastructure possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Azure Services in Spring Initializr<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Spring Initializr enables developers to handle the dependency management and make the bootstrapping process for Spring projects much easier. Today, in collaboration with Pivotal, we’re excited to announce new Spring Boot Starters for Azure<\/strong>, providing Java developers a shortcut to apply Spring technologies to Azure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Java developers can now get started with their Spring applications on Azure quickly by typing “Azure” inside Spring Initializr<\/a> to choose the dependencies for Azure services, or by selecting options they want to include from the new Azure section on the full version of the site. You can also access Azure dependencies from the cf CLI, Visual Studio Code, Eclipse, and IntelliJ. All of our Spring Boot support is open source on GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At launch, we are offering the following Spring Starters for Azure<\/a>, with more to come:<\/p>\n\n\n\n