How to Secure a Spring Boot Application with TLS
Securing an application with Transport Layer Security and a Self-Signed Certificate
Security is an important aspect of any application and nearly all production-grade applications employ a certain level of security mechanism for application security. Transport Layer Security allows applications to develop a secure communication channel with its clients. In this article, we will create a Spring boot application and secure it with a self-signed certificate.
Creating a Spring Boot Application
In this section, we will create a Spring boot application and expose the following endpoints:
GET v1/books/ : List all books
POST v1/books/: Create a new book
GET v1/books/{book_id}: Get a book resource
DELETE v1/books/{book_id}: Remove a book
Step 1: Creating a Spring Boot Project
Browse to your favorite IDE and create a Spring boot project with web, h2, data-jpa and Lombok dependencies. Following is the pom.xml file:
