Similar to Eureka Server, each OTRS service should also be the Eureka client that enables the services to be registered on Eureka Server and should be able to consume other services using the discovery service provided by Eureka Server. Eureka clients are equally important for implementing the service discovery and registration pattern.
Eureka clients provide metadata such as hostname/IP, port, and the health check API. On successful registration call, Eureka Server stores service instances and their details in a Eureka registry. Eureka clients send heartbeats (API calls) to Eureka Server regularly. Eureka Server removes any instance from the registry if no heartbeats are received during the specified ...
