This is basically the same solution as @andy-wilkinson provided, but as of Spring Boot 1.0 the customize(...) method has a ConfigurableEmbeddedServletContainer parameter.
Another thing that is worth mentioning is that Tomcat only compresses content types of text/html, text/xml and text/plain by default. Below is an example that supports compression of application/json as well:
@Bean
public EmbeddedServletContainerCustomizer servletContainerCustomizer() {
return new EmbeddedServletContainerCustomizer() {
@Override
public void customize(ConfigurableEmbeddedServletContainer servletContainer) {
((TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory) servletContainer).addConnectorCustomizers(
new TomcatConnectorCustomizer() {
@Override
public void customize(Connector connector) {
AbstractHttp11Protocol httpProtocol = (AbstractHttp11Protocol) connector.getProtocolHandler();
httpProtocol.setCompression("on");
httpProtocol.setCompressionMinSize(256);
String mimeTypes = httpProtocol.getCompressableMimeTypes();
String mimeTypesWithJson = mimeTypes + "," + MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE;
httpProtocol.setCompressableMimeTypes(mimeTypesWithJson);
}
}
);
}
};
}