Chapter 5. Scaling Microservices with Spring Cloud

In order to manage Internet-scale microservices, one requires more capabilities than what are offered by the Spring Boot framework. The Spring Cloud project has a suite of purpose-built components to achieve these additional capabilities effortlessly.

This chapter will provide a deep insight into the various components of the Spring Cloud project such as Eureka, Zuul, Ribbon, and Spring Config by positioning them against the microservices capability model discussed in Chapter 3, Applying Microservices Concepts. It will demonstrate how the Spring Cloud components help to scale the BrownField Airline's PSS microservices system, developed in the previous chapter.

By the end of this chapter, you will learn about the following:

• The Spring Config server for externalizing configuration
• The Eureka server for service registration and discovery
• The relevance of Zuul as a service proxy and gateway
• The implementation of automatic microservice...