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Mastering Spring Cloud
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Mastering Spring Cloud

by Piotr Mińkowski
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
432 pages
10h 38m
English
Packt Publishing
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An alternative – Consul

An interesting alternative for Netflix discovery and Spring distributed configuration seems to be Consul created by Hashicorp. Spring Cloud provides integrations with this popular tool for discovering and configuring services in your infrastructure. As usual, this integration can be enabled using a few simple common annotations and the only difference in comparison with an earlier presented solution is in configuration settings. In order to establish communication with a Consul server, its agent needs to be available for the application. It has to be able to run as a separated process, which is available by default at the http://localhost:8500 address. Consul also provides REST API, which can be directly used for registration, ...

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