Hands-On Microservices with Kotlin

Defining routes

Now that we have our Gateway running, we can use it to route to our services. Let's first enable just adding the @EnableZuulProxy annotation in our Chapter06GatewayApplication class:

package com.microservices.chapter06gatewayimport org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplicationimport org.springframework.boot.runApplicationimport org.springframework.cloud.netflix.zuul.EnableZuulProxy@SpringBootApplication@EnableZuulProxyclass Chapter06GatewayApplicationfun main(args: Array<String>) {  runApplication<Chapter06GatewayApplication>(*args)}

If we restart our Gateway, we can use the http://localhost:8080/greetings/greetings URL, and we get the following as an output:

secret message

How does this actually work? Here's ...