Understanding basic usage

First, navigate in your browser to https://start.spring.io/:

We need to choose the project type for the build system that will be used, in our case a Maven Project. Then, we must choose our programming language, this will be Kotlin, and then the Spring Boot version that will be used, this will be Spring Boot 2.0.0 M7.

For the project metadata, we will set up Group as com.microservices and Artifact as chapter2.

Now, we need to specify the spring dependencies that we require; in the search box we will type Web and select it when it is shown on the list.

Finally, we can click on the Generate Project to get a zip file with the contents of the project; the file will be named chapter2.zip.