Hands-On Microservices with Kotlin

Getting configurations

Now that we have our Configuration Server running, we can run our microservice, so let's run it again from the microservice folder:

mvnw spring-boot:run

The log lines should look something like this:

INFO 15312 --- [ main] c.c.c.ConfigServicePropertySourceLocator : Fetching config from server at: http://localhost:8888INFO 9496 --- [ main] b.c.PropertySourceBootstrapConfiguration : Located property source: CompositePropertySource {name='configService', propertySources=[MapPropertySource {name='classpath:config/application.yml'}]}

This means that our microservice has been able to connect to our Configuration Server and retrieve its configuration.

Let's add a simple RestController to our microservice so we can check that ...