September 2019
Intermediate to advanced
668 pages
15h 59m
English
Content preview from Hands-On Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud
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Problem
How can clients find microservices and their instances?
Microservices instances are typically assigned dynamically allocated IP addresses when they start up, for example, when running in containers. This makes it difficult for a client to make a request to a microservice that, for example, exposes a REST API over HTTP. Consider the following diagram:
