Developing Java Applications with Spring and Spring Boot

How to do it...

Before we get to the steps to add Eureka to our application, we need to get the Eureka service itself up and running. Thankfully, the Spring Cloud folks have been awesome enough to provide a sample project that makes creating an instance of Eureka server and running it a breeze. Let's take a look at the following steps:

1. To get things up and running just go to https://github.com/spring-cloud-samples/eureka and git clone the [e-mail]:spring-cloud-samples/eureka.git repository to your machine.
2. After that's done, run ./gradlew clean bootRun to start the server:
3. Once the server is up and running, we need to add the following dependencies to the build.gradle file located at the root of our project:

//compile("org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-starter-consul-all") ...