Spring Cloud Azure roadmap

Roadmap

This page list our (spring cloud azure) team's roadmap, things are expected to change :)

2022

Feature Candidates

Security

• Support Azure Private Link in all supported azure services
• Support credential-free connection for 3rd party libraries

Messaging

• Support AsyncAPI, integrated with https://github.com/asyncapi/java-spring-cloud-stream-template

Framework

• Support Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3.
• Support Spring Native.
• Multi-version support policy (N - 2)

Development Experience

• Azure Spring Initializr
• Spring on Azure site to provide consistent and unified doc / samples for spring users.

2021

when	what	owner	status
Jul	Production Ready - Spring Boot Health indicators support	Xiaolu Dai	✅
Jul	Security - Realize azure credential chain to simplify and unify developer credential management experience across spring libraries.	Xiaolu Dai	In Progress
Aug	Production Ready - Support multiple active spring versions	Xiaolu Dai	✅
Aug	AAD - Support Web-application and resource-server in one spring boot application	Rujun Chen	✅
Sep	E2E Sample demonstrating all Azure Spring Cloud Starters	Zhihao Guo	✅
Oct	Messaging - enable configurations supported by Azure SDK	Xiaolu Dai	✅
Nov	Observability - Support metrics and tracing for Azure messaging and database	Xiaolu Dai	blocked
Dec	Reactive API support - Compatible with Spring Boot Webflux		put back to backlog