The Spring Cloud Netflix project is one of the key sub-projects of Spring Cloud. This project provides integration between Netflix OSS and the Spring Boot application using the auto-configuration behavior of Spring Boot. You can build a large, distributed application by using some annotations of Spring Cloud; these annotations enable the Netflix components for your distributed systems. Netflix OSS provides multiple components for the distributed applications for several purposes, such as Service Discovery (Eureka), Circuit Breaker (Hystrix), Intelligent Routing (Zuul), and Client-Side Load Balancing (Ribbon). In this chapter, we will explore more about client-side Service Discovery and registering services to the Discovery server via Spring Cloud Netflix Eureka.
As you know, distributed cloud-native systems are built by several services hosted...
