Spring Cloud provides tools for developers to quickly build some of the common patterns in distributed systems (e.g. configuration management, service discovery, circuit breakers, intelligent routing, micro-proxy, control bus, one-time tokens, global locks, leadership election, distributed sessions, cluster state). Coordination of distributed systems leads to boiler plate patterns, and using Spring Cloud developers can quickly stand up services and applications that implement those patterns. They will work well in any distributed environment, including the developer’s own laptop, bare metal data centres, and managed platforms such as Cloud Foundry.
SpringCloud是一个由众多独立子项目组成的大型综合项目,每个子项目有不同的发行节奏,都维护着自己的发布版木号。spring cloud通过一个资源清单BOM(Bil1 of Materials)来管理每个版木的子项目清单,为避免与子项目的发布号混淆,所以没有采用版本号的方式,而是通过命名的方式
SpringCloud没有采用数字编号的方式命名版本号,而是采用了伦敦地铁站的名称,同时根据字母表的顺序来对应版本时间顺序,比如最早的Realse版本:Angel,第二个Realse版本:Brixton,然后是Camden、Dalston、Edgware,目前最新的是Hoxton SR8 CURRENT GA通用稳定版