# Spring Boot Cloud CLI

Spring Boot CLI provides Spring Boot command line features for Spring Cloud. You can write Groovy scripts to run Spring Cloud component applications (e.g. `@EnableEurekaServer`). You can also easily do things like encryption and decryption to support Spring Cloud Config clients with secret configuration values.

Note | Spring Cloud is released under the non-restrictive Apache 2.0 license. If you would like to contribute to this section of the documentation or if you find an error, please find the source code and issue trackers in the project at github.

## Installation

To install, make sure you have Spring Boot CLI (1.3.0 or better):

    $ spring version
    Spring CLI v1.3.2.RELEASE

E.g. for SDKMan users

    $ sdk install springboot 1.3.2.RELEASE
    $ sdk use springboot 1.3.2.RELEASE

and install the Spring Cloud plugin:

    $ mvn install
    $ spring install org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-cli:1.1.0.RC1

Important

Prerequisites: to use the encryption and decryption features you need the full-strength JCE installed in your JVM (it’s not there by default). You can download the "Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy Files" from Oracle, and follow instructions for installation (essentially replace the 2 policy files in the JRE lib/security directory with the ones that you downloaded).

## Writing Groovy Scripts and Running Applications

Spring Cloud CLI has support for most of the Spring Cloud declarative features, such as the `@Enable*` class of annotations. For example, here is a fully functional Eureka server

app.groovy

    @EnableEurekaServer
    class Eureka {}

which you can run from the command line like this

    $ spring run app.groovy

To include additional dependencies, often it suffices just to add the appropriate feature-enabling annotation, e.g. `@EnableConfigServer`, `@EnableOAuth2Sso` or `@EnableEurekaClient`. To manually include a dependency you can use a `@Grab` with the special "Spring Boot" short style artifact co-ordinates, i.e. with just the artifact ID (no need for group or version information), e.g. to set up a client app to listen on AMQP for management events from the Spring CLoud Bus:

app.groovy

    @Grab('spring-cloud-starter-bus-amqp')
    @RestController
    class Service {
      @RequestMapping('/')
      def home() { [message: 'Hello'] }
    }

## Encryption and Decryption

The Spring Cloud CLI comes with an "encrypt" and a "decrypt" command. Both accept arguments in the same form with a key specified as a mandatory "--key", e.g.

    $ spring encrypt mysecret --key foo
    682bc583f4641835fa2db009355293665d2647dade3375c0ee201de2a49f7bda
    $ spring decrypt --key foo 682bc583f4641835fa2db009355293665d2647dade3375c0ee201de2a49f7bda
    mysecret

To use a key in a file (e.g. an RSA public key for encyption) prepend the key value with "@" and provide the file path, e.g.

    $ spring encrypt mysecret --key @${HOME}/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
    AQAjPgt3eFZQXwt8tsHAVv/QHiY5sI2dRcR+...