Developing Java Applications with Spring and Spring Boot

How it works...

What we just did was pretty sweet, right? Let's examine the magic going on behind the scenes in more detail. We will start by dissecting the command line and explaining what each argument control option does.

Our first execution command line was envconsul --once --sanitize --upcase --prefix bookpub ./gradlew clean bootRun, so let's take a look at exactly what we did, as follows:

• First, one might notice that there is no indication about which Consul node we should be connecting to. This is because there is an implicit understanding or an assumption that you already have a Consul agent running locally on localhost:8500. If this is not the case for whatever reason, you can always explicitly specify the Consul instance to connect ...