Spring 5.0 By Example

Understanding the EDGE service project

The EDGE service is a service that provides dynamic routing, monitoring, resiliency, and security. The basic idea here is to create a reverse proxy for our microservices. 

This service will act as a proxy for our microservices and will be exposed as a central access point. The Spring Cloud Zuul integrates with the Eureka server. It will increase our resiliency because we will use the service discovery feature provided by the Eureka server.

The following image demonstrates how we will use the Edge Service in our architecture:

As we can see, the Zuul Server will connect to the service discovery server, ...