Skip to Content
Hands-On Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud
book

Hands-On Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud

by Magnus Larsson
September 2019
Intermediate to advanced
668 pages
15h 59m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Hands-On Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud

Service discovery with Netflix Eureka in Spring Cloud

Netflix Eureka implements client-side service discovery, meaning that the clients run software that talks to the discovery service, Netflix Eureka, to get information about the available microservice instances. This is illustrated in the following diagram:

The process is as follows:

  1. Whenever a microservice instance starts up—for example, the Review service—it registers itself to one of the Eureka servers.
  2. On a regular basis, each microservice instance sends a heartbeat message to the Eureka server, telling it that the microservice instance is okay and is ready to receive requests.
  3. Clients—for ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Master Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud

Master Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud

In28Minutes Official

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781789613476Supplemental Content