Security With Spring Boot

Spring Boot Security provides you with a basic, self-configuring security layer by simply including the following dependency on your pom.xml.

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>Spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId>
</dependency>

How does it work?

Once Spring Boot imports the dependency libraries, it puts a layer between view and controller forcing you to only allow access if you are logged in.

Even if you do not have a Spring Boot Security login form, spring boot will provide you with one and show it as a login page with the user and password inputs as shown in the following image.

By default the user is ‘ user ‘ and the generated password will be on your console.

Once you are logged-in correctly you will be able to navigate your application freely. Of course this is useless in a real world application so in the following post we will create our personalized login page with thymeleaf and connect the application to a database to save our users and roles in this.

In the video you can see step by step this tutorial, do not forget to leave your comments and share.