April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
10h 38m
English
Service discovery and distributed configuration management are vital parts of the microservices architecture. The technical implementation of these two different mechanisms is pretty similar. It comes down to storing parameters under specific keys in a flexible key-value storage. Actually, there are several interesting solutions available on the market which provide both of these functionalities. Spring Cloud integrates with the most popular of them. But there is also one exception where Spring Cloud has its own implementation created only for distributed configuration. This feature is available under the Spring Cloud Config project. In contrast, Spring Cloud does not provide its own implementation ...