The real challenge in a microservice architecture is to access particular services because they are dynamically created and destroyed, so their location keeps changing. Additionally, we also need some sort of inter-service communication to fulfill certain business use cases that span the microservices. Also, multiple instances of each microservice can be created to scale up the application's performance.
In this situation, there must be a mechanism for locating the microservices. Spring Cloud provides a Netflix Eureka-based service discovery component for this purpose. Microservices can register themselves with the discovery server so that they can be accessed and interacted with by other services. Eureka ...
