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.

See https://projects.spring.io/spring-cloud[projects.spring.io/spring-cloud] for details.

== Release Notes

See the following release notes for upgrade instructions and "new and noteworthy" features:

- link:Spring-Cloud-Angel-Release-Notes[Angel]

- link:Spring-Cloud-Brixton-Release-Notes[Brixton]

- link:Spring-Cloud-Camden-Release-Notes[Camden]

- link:Spring-Cloud-Dalston-Release-Notes[Dalston]

- link:Spring-Cloud-Edgware-Release-Notes[Edgware]

- link:Spring-Cloud-Finchley-Release-Notes[Finchley]