🧰 Spring Boot Advanced Features: Security, Testing, and Deployment Strategies
Welcome back to The Code Hut ! 🚀 In this post, we’ll take your Spring Boot skills to the next level — exploring security, testing, and deployment strategies that turn great apps into production-ready systems. 💪 1. 🔒 Spring Security Essentials Spring Security provides powerful authentication and authorization mechanisms out of the box. Authentication: Verifies user identity. Authorization: Grants access to resources based on roles or authorities. Security Filters: Intercept and process requests using a filter chain. // Basic in-memory authentication @Configuration @EnableWebSecurity public class SecurityConfig extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter { @Override protected void configure(AuthenticationManagerBuilder auth) throws Exception { auth.inMemoryAuthentication() .withUser("admin").password("{noop}password").roles("ADMIN"); } @Override protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exce...