Spring Boot Admin describes several ways of connecting clients to the admin server. If your Spring Boot applications are running on kubernetes or openshift then Spring Boot Admin can use the Spring Cloud Kubernetes discovery client. In this blogpost i’ll show you how.

I’ve recently had the situation where I deployed a Spring Boot application on OpenShift where a certain dependency needed a properties file that couldn’t be found. The problem was that this dependency didn’t scan the classpath for the file, but just opened a FileInputStream relative to the current path.

In this blogpost I will guide you through the process of deploying a text file next to a jar in an OpenShift container. I’ve reproduced an example scenario, but you can skip these steps and go right to the solution if you want to.