You're reading from Microservices with Spring Boot 3 and Spring Cloud, Third Edition Build resilient and scalable microservices using Spring Cloud, Istio, and Kubernetes

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781805128694

Length 706 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Istio

Concepts

Microservices

Author (1):

Magnus Larsson AB

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Microservices

2. Introduction to Spring Boot FREE CHAPTER

3. Creating a Set of Cooperating Microservices

4. Deploying Our Microservices Using Docker

5. Adding an API Description Using OpenAPI

6. Adding Persistence

7. Developing Reactive Microservices

8. Introduction to Spring Cloud

9. Adding Service Discovery Using Netflix Eureka

10. Using Spring Cloud Gateway to Hide Microservices behind an Edge Server

11. Securing Access to APIs

12. Centralized Configuration

13. Improving Resilience Using Resilience4j

14. Understanding Distributed Tracing

15. Introduction to Kubernetes

16. Deploying Our Microservices to Kubernetes

17. Implementing Kubernetes Features to Simplify the System Landscape

18. Using a Service Mesh to Improve Observability and Management

19. Centralized Logging with the EFK Stack

20. Monitoring Microservices

21. Installation Instructions for macOS

22. Installation Instructions for Microsoft Windows with WSL 2 and Ubuntu

23. Native-Complied Java Microservices

24. Other Books You May Enjoy

25. Index

Understanding Distributed Tracing

In this chapter, we will learn how to use distributed tracing to better understand how our microservices cooperate, for example, in fulfilling a request sent to the external API. Being able to utilize distributed tracing is essential for being able to manage a system landscape of cooperating microservices. As already described in Chapter 8, Introduction to Spring Cloud, Micrometer Tracing will be used to collect trace information, and Zipkin will be used for the storage and visualization of said trace information.

In this chapter, we will learn about the following topics:

Introducing distributed tracing with Micrometer Tracing and Zipkin.
How to add distributed tracing to the source code.
How to programmatically add information to the traces.
How to perform distributed tracing, visualizing both successful and unsuccessful API requests. We will see how both synchronous and asynchronous processing can be visualized.