Mastering Microservices with Java - Third Edition

Implementation

We are going to use Spring Cloud Netflix Zuul. However, you are free to modify the code to use Netflix Zuul 2 or the Spring Cloud Gateway, which are new and reactive, and hence serve requests in a non-blocking way.

We'll modify the service code structure of the zuul-server directory. We'll do this in the following three steps:

1. Maven dependency: First, we'll add Spring Cloud dependencies in the pom.xml file. spring-cloud-starter-netflix-zuul is a Zuul dependency that provides all the classes and autoconfiguration for the gateway. We are also making it a Eureka client so that it communicates with the Eureka server. We'll configure the routes based on the instance information available on Eureka; therefore, you need Eureka ...