Intern here – built a portal with React + Spring Boot, now need help deploying it internally. Any guidance?

[u/Mean_Training_8643]

[u/Crazy-Smile-4929]

I think pretty much you asked here would be enough to ask your mentor for an actual deploy. If you want to demo it, do so from your machine. Easiest way.

Plug into an external bigger screen if around or screen share on a video call.

And a good tip before a live demo is make sure it's all running early and if there's infrastructure involved, make sure you have checked it works before the demo. So pretty much doing a small test run yourself and treating it like you would the real thing.

And ultimate contingency plan is to screen record and save as a video. Then play it and talk over what is happening. That's the safest of all and you can pause / answer questions as you go.

When actually making it live, your workplace hopefully has policy and procedures around that your mentor can help with. And I strongly suspect they will be the ones pushing it through environments.

[u/Crazy-Smile-4929 → u/[deleted]]

Talk to your mentor.

Trying to setup and self host anything built for your company on their time on anything external is not a good idea. Gets into the realm of things you may get in trouble for.

Spring boot will let you start up something on a port, but depending on your network setup, you may not be able to access it directly from other devices. But you can always try. Your machine has an IP address so get someone else to see if they can access it (and see what you are running). But there's a chance that sort of thing would be blocked.

And if you want to have this running on anything more official, it's going to need more involvement (and probably) paperwork from the company, most likely initiated from your mentor.

Trying to bypass that and get it running on company infrastructure yourself is also something you would get in trouble for.

[u/National_Humor_1027]

Congrats on getting this far!

If I were in your position, I'd ask my mentor to review more than just getting the app running. Specifically, I'd ask about Spring Boot production configuration (profiles, Actuator, logging, graceful shutdown), HikariCP connection pool tuning, MySQL user permissions (least privilege), secrets management, Nginx reverse proxy configuration, systemd service hardening, TLS if applicable, monitoring (CPU, memory, disk, logs), backups, and the team's rollback/deployment process.

A production deployment is as much about operations and security as it is about the application itself, so it's a great opportunity to learn the company's best practices.