All of the commands that are described in this book are run on a MacBook Pro using macOS Mojave, but should be straightforward to modify if you want to run them on another platform such as Linux or Windows.
No new tools need to be installed before you can work through this chapter.
The source code for this chapter can be found in this book's GitHub repository: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-Microservices-with-Spring-Boot-and-Spring-Cloud/tree/master/Chapter05.
To be able to run the commands that are described in this book, download the source code to a folder and set up an environment variable, $BOOK_HOME, that points to that folder. Some sample commands are as follows:
export BOOK_HOME=~/Documents/Hands-On-Microservices-with-Spring-Boot-and-Spring-Cloud
git clone https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-Microservices...