📰 Blog Microservices - Java Spring Boot

This project implements a secure, containerized blog application with image handling using Java and Spring Boot.

🔧 Technologies

• Spring Boot 3.4+
• Spring Security (JWT)
• Docker & Docker Compose
• MySQL (MariaDB)
• RESTful communication between services

📁 Project Structure

• blogg-service/ - blog posts, users, roles, JWT auth, image references
• image-service/ - stores image BLOBs, fetches via REST
• docker-compose.yml - microservices orchestration
• .env - secrets/config (NOT committed to Git)

🚀 How to Run

docker-compose build
docker-compose up

📦 Sample Endpoints

See deployment/testing section for curl examples

🧪 Local Development

cd blogg-service && mvn spring-boot:run

🔐 Security

• JWT authentication & authorization
• Role-based access (WRITER, READER, ADMIN)

🧩 Future Work

• Add Swagger UI docs*
• Add Disqus for comments
• CI/CD to production Kubernetes or ECS

*We have noticed that Intellij only has support for Thymeleaf and Swagger when user have an Intellij Ultimate plan. Because of this we have avoided importing these libraries into out project.