Spring 5.0 Projects

Setting up Zuul as an API gateway

We will create a Zuul proxy server as an independent Spring Boot service and register it with the Eureka discovery server. Create a new Spring starter project in Spring STS with Zuul, Eureka Discovery, and DevTool as dependencies.

Once created, open the bootstrap class and update it as follows:

@EnableZuulProxy@EnableDiscoveryClient@SpringBootApplicationpublic class ZuulApiGatewayApplication {  public static void main(String[] args) {    SpringApplication.run(ZuulApiGatewayApplication.class, args);  }}

The @EnableZuulProxy annotation will make this service a Zuul server. We also need to register it with the Eureka discovery server with the @EnableDiscoveryClient annotation. Every service registered with the Eureka ...