February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
442 pages
11h 46m
English
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Configuring the API gateway
In previous sections, we saw how to define Zuul as an API gateway. In subsequent sections, we explored other Netflix components, such as Feign and Ribbon, to make RESTful calls for inter-service communication. However, the interaction that we created happened directly between services. Though we have configured an API gateway with Zuul, we have not used it as a central point of the request flow. In this section, we will make the necessary configuration changes so that every request passes through our API gateway.
The very first thing we will learn is to implement a custom filter and configure it to the API gateway to trace the request and print it in the log. For simplicity, we will capture a few details about ...