Articles tagged spring-session
Session Clustering for OAuth 2.0 Applications
{% include integrator-org-warning.html %} A common OAuth 2.0 question we get: "How do I deal with OAuth in a load-balanced application?" The short answer: There’s nothing specific about session clustering for OAuth. The longer answer is—you likely still need to worry about cluster session management. This post will discuss how an OAuth login relates to your application’s session. And we’ll build a simple, secure, load-balanced application to demonstrate. Prerequisites Docker 20.10+ Java 11+, use SDKMAN...
Scaling Secure Applications with Spring Session and Redis
Note: In May 2025, the Okta Integrator Free Plan replaced Okta Developer Edition Accounts, and the Okta CLI was deprecated. We preserved this post for reference, but the instructions no longer work exactly as written. Replace the Okta CLI commands by manually configuring Okta following the instructions in our Developer Documentation. Spring Boot and Spring Security have delighted developers with their APIs for quite some time now. Spring Security has done an excellent job of...
Easy Session Sharing in Spring Boot with Spring Session and MySQL
Session management in multi-node applications presents multiple challenges. When the architecture includes a load balancer, client requests might be routed to different servers each time, and the HTTP session might be lost. In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through the configuration of session sharing in a multi-node Spring Boot application. Prerequisites: Java 8+ Docker Docker Compose Table of Contents Session Persistence Session Sharing with Spring Session Learn More about Spring Session and OAuth 2.0 Session...