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Sep 12, 2025 · Backend Development

Mastering Graceful Shutdown in Spring Boot: Hooks, Events, and @PreDestroy

Learn how to implement graceful shutdown in Spring Boot by understanding the JVM shutdown hook, customizing cleanup logic with ContextClosedEvent listeners and @PreDestroy annotations, and configuring the spring.main.register-shutdown-hook property to ensure resources are released safely during application termination.

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Mastering Graceful Shutdown in Spring Boot: Hooks, Events, and @PreDestroy
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Aug 4, 2021 · Operations

Mastering Graceful Shutdown and Startup for Spring Boot Microservices

This article explains how to implement elegant service shutdown and startup in microservice architectures using JVM shutdown hooks, Spring Boot lifecycle events, Docker signal handling, and external container scripts, ensuring traffic is safely managed and services are registered or deregistered correctly.

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Mastering Graceful Shutdown and Startup for Spring Boot Microservices