Spring 5.0 Cookbook

How to do it...

Let us implement client-side load balancing by following these steps:

1. First, create a Maven project ch10-eureka-client that contains pom.xml with SpringCloudFinchley dependencies. Just add the core starter POM such as webflux, the actuator and the following SpringCloudNetflixRibbon module dependencies:

<dependency> 
   <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId> 
   <artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-eureka</artifactId> 
</dependency> 
<dependency>   
   <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId> 
   <artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-ribbon</artifactId> 
</dependency> 

2. Then, create a typical bootstrap class suited for a Eureka client that fetches the registry and automatically registers itself to the Eureka server:

@SpringBootApplication @EnableDiscoveryClient ...