Difference between Spring Cloud and Spring Boot

Spring Cloud

Spring Cloud is a framework that provides facilities to use cloud services in your application. When it is used with Eureka, it acts as a container orchestration tool. The framework that provides an enterprise-level framework for integrating and managing container at scale is called container orchestration tool. It gives a developer-friendly environment for developing and deploying microservices.

Advantages of Spring Cloud

There are following advantages of Spring Cloud:

• Cloud-native based development
• Microservice-based architecture
• Inter-service communication
• Follows the Spring Boot model
• It is cloud-agnostic

Spring Boot

Spring Boot is a Rapid Application Development platform. It uses various components of Spring framework. It is a framework to develop Restful API and microservices quickly. It is similar to Spring framework but comes with some features like auto-configurators, starters, cli, etc.

Advantages of Spring Boot

• We can quickly develop and run standalone web applications and microservices at very less time.
• It automatic configures Spring functionality whenever required.
• The beans are initialized, configured and wired automatically.
• Embedded server avoid complexity in deployment.
• It provides no XML based configuration.
• It provides opinionated 'starter' POMs to simplify your Maven configuration.
• It provides production ready features such as metrics, health status, and externalized.
• Embed Tomcat, Jetty directly. There is no need to deploy WAR files.