Spring Boot makes developing Spring-based applications easy. It enables us to create production-ready applications very quickly.

In this chapter, we understood ; ;the different external configuration options provided by Spring Boot. We looked at embedded servers and deployed a test application to a ;PaaS Cloud platform--Cloud Foundry. ;We explored how to monitor our application in the production using Spring Boot Actuator. At the end, we looked at ;the features that make a developer more productive--Spring Boot developer tools and live reload.

In the next chapter, we will shift our attention toward data. We will cover Spring Data and take a look at how it makes integration with JPA and providing Rest services easier.