Mastering Spring Boot 2.0

Shutting down your application

You can also shut down your application by using the /shutdown endpoint. But by default, this endpoint is disabled, so first, you have to enable the /shutdown endpoint, and then you can use it as follows:

endpoints.shutdown.enabled=true

Let's enable it by using the application.yml file:

endpoints:
   shutdown:
         enabled: true 

Let's invoke the /shutdown endpoint and see what happens:

POST http://localhost:8080/shutdown

The preceding is a POST request. It returns the following response:

{
    "message": "Shutting down, bye..."
} 

This /shutdown endpoint can kill your application, so you have to take care with this endpoint.

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