Chapter 3. Features

Use the Dekorate Maven dependency to deploy your Spring Boot applications to OpenShift. The Fabric8 Maven plugin is no longer supported. For information about deploying your application to OpenShift, see Deploying Spring Boot application to OpenShift.

OpenJ9 images for IBM Z and IBM Power Systems will be deprecated. The following OpenJDK11 image has been updated to support multiple architectures:

You can use the OpenJDK11 image with the following architectures:

If you want to use the OpenJ9 Java Virtual Machine (JVM) with the OpenJDK11 images, see Java Change in Power and Z OpenShift Images.

You can add metering labels to your Spring Boot pods and check Red Hat subscription details with the OpenShift Metering Operator.

Spring Boot should use the following metering labels:

See Metering documentation for more information.

For more information on labels, see Understanding how to update labels on nodes.

You can use Dekorate to configure a Source-to-image build of your application that starts automatically after you compile your application with Maven. This functionality is provided as Technology Preview in Dekorate version 1.0.0 and later. Red Hat does not provide support for using this functionality in a production environment.