One of the main concerns when developing an application is where/how to store the application secrets such as database passwords, tokens, etc. This post explores the use of AWS Key Management Service to manage the secrets in a Spring Boot application. The steps followed to configure AWS KMS are described in the next sections. …
Running Docker on AWS
Recently, while developing a new microservice, I decided to create a “mockserver” to mock a third party system. In order to do that, I created a Docker container encapsulating the server and the stubs to be served in response to the application requests. After running the microservice locally making use of the mockserver, the time …