Spring Boot on Light Cloud: JAR, Port and Memory Settings

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Full tutorial with screenshots: https://blog.light-cloud.com/tutorials/deploy-a-spring-boot-app

Deploy a Spring Boot app to Light Cloud without a Dockerfile: Gradle or Maven builds the JAR, SERVER_PORT is set for you, and JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS=-XX:MaxRAMPercentage=75 raises the heap from 123 MB to 371 MB on a 512 MB instance.

Level: Intermediate · Time: about 20 minutes · Plan: Free · Stack: Java 17, Spring Boot 4, Gradle

Steps

• Step 1: Generate the project
• Step 2: Write the API
• Step 3: Build and run it
• Step 4: Push it to GitHub
• Step 5: Deploy it
• Step 6: Give the JVM its memory

Source code: https://github.com/light-cloud-com/tutorial-spring-boot-api

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