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spring-cloud-alibaba
Spring Cloud integrations for Nacos, Sentinel, RocketMQ and Seata
- Stars
- 29.2k
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
- Last release
- Feb 2026
- Language
- Java
28,845 on 21 Apr 202629,160 on 10 Nov 2026
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Overview
Java library set that connects Spring Cloud applications to Alibaba middleware through starters and annotations. It covers service discovery and config (Nacos), flow control and degradation (Sentinel), messaging (RocketMQ), distributed transactions (Seata), and Alibaba Cloud OSS, SMS and SchedulerX. Versioned in step with Spring Boot; the 2025.1.x branch targets Spring Boot 4.0.x and JDK 17+.
Who it is for: Java teams building Spring Cloud microservices on Alibaba middleware
Strengths
- Starters for Nacos, Sentinel, RocketMQ and Seata, imported through one BOM
- Branches map to Spring Boot lines from 1.x to 4.0.x
- Maven and Gradle dependency setup both documented
- Examples module with readmes for Sentinel, Nacos and RocketMQ
Weaknesses
- Not an AI project; no model, agent or LLM features in the README
- Needs separately run Nacos, Sentinel, RocketMQ or Seata servers
- Several features depend on paid Alibaba Cloud services (OSS, SMS, SchedulerX)
- Grayscale release and lossless online/offline are only in the enterprise MSE edition
What it needs
- no GPU
- Needs Nacos, Sentinel, RocketMQ, Seata, Alibaba Cloud OSS, Alibaba Cloud SMS, Alibaba Cloud SchedulerX
Quick answers
Is spring-cloud-alibaba open source?
Yes. Its code is on GitHub under the Apache-2.0 license.
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