Here's how to build a Spring Boot 12-Factor app and safely deploy a cloud-native Java app to Docker and Kubernetes servers.

Use Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk as your Java or Spring Boot hosting environment. Amazon Beanstalk makes it incredibly easy to deploy RESTful APIs written in Jakarta EE, or HTML-based applications ...

Spring Boot has released version 2.3.0 which adds support for latest Java versions, Docker with buildpacks, layered images, graceful shutdown support, liveness, and readiness probes.