After a quite long holiday break we now continue our series about the Continuous Deployment Pipeline with Gradle and Docker.
This post is about the first step where our build chain creates the Spring Boot packages and publishes them to our Nexus repository manager. As shown in the high-level overview below, it is only a quite small part of the complete pipeline: Gradle and Spring Boot provide you a very convenient build and plugin system and work out of the box for standard builds.