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Mastering Spring Cloud

You're reading from   Mastering Spring Cloud Build self-healing, microservices-based, distributed systems using Spring Cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788475433
Length 432 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Piotr Mińkowski Piotr Mińkowski
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Preface 1. Introduction to Microservices 2. Spring for Microservices FREE CHAPTER 3. Spring Cloud Overview 4. Service Discovery 5. Distributed Configuration with Spring Cloud Config 6. Communication Between Microservices 7. Advanced Load Balancing and Circuit Breakers 8. Routing and Filtering with API Gateway 9. Distributed Logging and Tracing 10. Additional Configuration and Discovery Features 11. Message-Driven Microservices 12. Securing an API 13. Testing Java Microservices 14. Docker Support 15. Spring Microservices on Cloud Platforms 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Enabling Eureka on the client side

As on the server side, there is only one dependency that has to be included to enable a Eureka Client for the application. So, first include the following starter to your project's dependencies:

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

The example application does nothing more than communicate with the Eureka Server. It has to register itself and send metadata information such as host, port, health indicator URL, and home page. Eureka receives heartbeat messages from each instance belonging to a service. If the heartbeat isn't received after a configured period of time, the instance is removed from the registry. The second responsibility of discovery client is fetching data from the server, then caching...

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