Developing Java Applications with Spring and Spring Boot

How to do it...

Take a look at the following steps to set up service discovery:

1. Replace the spring-cloud-commons and spring-cloud-context modules with spring-cloud-starter-consul-all by modifying the build.gradle file located in the root of our project with the following content:

... 
 
dependencies { 
    ... 
    compile("io.dropwizard.metrics:metrics-graphite:3.1.0") 
    compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-devtools") 
    //compile("org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-context") 
    //compile("org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-commons") 
    compile("org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-starter-consul-all") 
    runtime("com.h2database:h2") 
    ... 
} 
... 

2. With Consul dependencies added, we will proceed with enabling our application to automatically register ...