Intro

This is a simple Spring Boot application written for the article here: https://blog.arnoldgalovics.com/deploying-a-simple-spring-boot-with-mysql-app-to-aws-using-elastic-beanstalk/

Its a basic Spring Boot application acting as a bookstore with 2 exposed HTTP endpoints. The application also uses a MySQL database as a backing data storage.

Available endpoints

• GET /books which returns all the books stored in the system.
• POST /books which can create new books in the system.
  • The following JSON structure shall be used as a request body { "name": "test-book" }

Running MySQL locally for testing purposes

docker run --name aws-eb-mysql -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=root -p 3306:3306 -d mysql/8.0.11