To use Spring Boot for Apache Geode, declare the spring-geode-starter on your application classpath:

Maven. 

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.geode</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-geode-starter</artifactId>
        <version>1.1.11.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies

Gradle. 

dependencies {
    compile 'org.springframework.geode:spring-geode-starter:1.1.11.RELEASE'
}