Spring 5.0 Projects

Service discovery

As we have seen, microservice applications are a collection of self-contained and independently deployable services that are running on the same or different physical machines, or on the cloud. Each service can be considered as an individual process that performs a specific responsibility.

Though they are separated in terms of executing different business functions, they are interconnected as a part of the whole application, and hence some sort of communication mechanism, with well-defined standards, is required.

For interprocess communication, as well as accessing a particular service, we need to know the location in terms of the port and IP of the service. Traditional monolithic applications are generally deployed and ...