Upgrade to Spring Cloud Azure 4.0.0

[saragluna]

We are going to GA the next major version of Spring Cloud Azure later this month, and this version will have breaking changes in both artifact names and APIs. The next major version will be 4.0.0 and it's compatible with Spring Boot 2.5.x and 2.6.x, and we have released several beta versions already. So I am reaching out before the GA release to discuss the changes.

• Azure Support: from azure-spring-boot-starter to spring-cloud-azure-starter
• Azure Active Directory: from azure-spring-boot-starter-active-directory to spring-cloud-azure-starter-active-directory
• Azure Cosmos DB: from azure-spring-boot-starter-cosmos to spring-cloud-azure-starter-data-cosmos
• Azure Key Vault: from azure-spring-boot-starter-keyvault-secrets to spring-cloud-azure-starter-keyvault-secrets
• Azure Storage: from azure-spring-boot-starter-storage to spring-cloud-azure-starter-storage-blob
• The BOM: from azure-spring-boot-bom to spring-cloud-azure-dependencies

[saragluna]

Hi @snicoll, the release has finished. Could you help update the entries with the following changes?

• Azure Support: from azure-spring-boot-starter to spring-cloud-azure-starter
• Azure Active Directory: from azure-spring-boot-starter-active-directory to spring-cloud-azure-starter-active-directory
• Azure Cosmos DB: from azure-spring-boot-starter-cosmos to spring-cloud-azure-starter-data-cosmos
• Azure Key Vault: from azure-spring-boot-starter-keyvault-secrets to spring-cloud-azure-starter-keyvault-secrets
• Azure Storage: from azure-spring-boot-starter-storage to spring-cloud-azure-starter-storage-blob
• The BOM: from azure-spring-boot-bom to spring-cloud-azure-dependencies

[snicoll]

@saragluna it would be nice if we had links to samples that are not pointing directly to a GitHub folder. Right now the samples are pointing to a branch, which can I see being changed and break. Would it be possible to add links to samples in the reference guide maybe?

[saragluna]

Hi @snicoll, could you point out to me which links are broken now? And what is the reference guide link? Now our samples link to this tag https://github.com/Azure-Samples/azure-spring-boot-samples/releases/tag/spring-cloud-azure_4.0.0, and reference doc is here https://aka.ms/spring/docs/4.0.0.

[snicoll]

They aren't any broken links. I could add links to sample using https://github.com/Azure-Samples/azure-spring-boot-samples/releases/tag/spring-cloud-azure_4.0.0 but I am not feeling comfortable doing so as they are for a fixed version and I'd rather have something that evolves over time.

Ideally we should be able to add a token to replace the version in the URL but we don't have that feature yet.

[saragluna]

@snicoll how about using this https://aka.ms/spring/samples, it will point to our sample repo.

[snicoll]

It's not a link to "the samples". We need a link to "a sample". Each entry can have a number of links. One for the documentation, one for the sample, etc. Try it out on start.spring.io for more details.

[saragluna]

Okay, we can use the following links:

• https://aka.ms/spring/samples/latest/storage
• https://aka.ms/spring/samples/latest/aad
• https://aka.ms/spring/samples/latest/cosmos
• https://aka.ms/spring/samples/latest/keyvault

[saragluna]

Hi @snicoll, one more question about the site, when I choose the Azure Support with Azure Cosmos it uses version 4.0.0, but when I remove either one of them, it uses version 3.14.0. Is it because of some cached value?

[snicoll]

Thanks for those links! I've added them in 910573d

As for serving 3.14.0 still, it looks a pod is still running with the previous bits. We're investigating.

EDIT: the pods are up-to-date but we're hitting a cache problem that is web specific. If you try from the command-line or from an IDE, it should work just fine.