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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Adding Service Discovery Using Netflix Eureka and Ribbon
In this chapter, we will learn how to use Netflix Eureka as a discovery server for microservices based on Spring Boot. To allow our microservices to communicate with Netflix Eureka, we will use the Spring Cloud module for Netflix Eureka clients. Before we delve into the details, we will elaborate on why a discovery server is needed and why a DNS server isn't sufficient.
The following topics will be covered in this chapter:
- Introduction to service discovery
- The problem with DNS-based service discovery
- Challenges with service discovery
- Service discovery with Netflix Eureka in Spring Cloud
- Setting up a Netflix Eureka server
- Connecting microservices to a Netflix Eureka server
- Setting ...