Chapter 1. Required Infrastructure Component Versions

When you work with Red Hat support for Spring Boot, you can use the following components. However, Red Hat does not provide support for components listed below except Red Hat OpenShift cluster and Red Hat OpenJDK.

Required components

The following components are required to build and develop applications using Spring Boot.

Table 1.1. Required components

Component nameVersion

Maven

3.6.3

JDK[a]

OpenJDK 8, OpenJDK 11, OpenJDK 17

[a] A full JDK installation is required because JRE does not provide tools for compiling Java applications from source.

Optional components

Red Hat recommends using the following components depending on your development and production environments.

Table 1.2. Optional components

Component nameVersion

git

2.0 or later

oc command line tool

4.12 or later[a]

Access to a Red Hat OpenShift cluster[b]

4.12, 4.13

[a] The version of the oc CLI tool should correspond to the version of OCP that you are using.
[b] OpenShift cluster is supported by Red Hat.