How do I run a spring boot executable jar in a Production environment?

Question

Spring boot\'s preferred deployment method is via a executable jar file which contains tomcat inside.

It is started with a simple java -jar myapp.jar.

Answer 1

In a production environment you want your app to be started again on a machine restart etc, creating a /etc/init.d/ script and linking to the appropriate runlevel to start and stop it is the correct approach. Spring Boot will not extend to covering this as it is a operating system specific setup and the are tonnes of other options, do you want it running in a chroot jail, does it need to stop / start before some other software etc.