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Mastering Spring Cloud

By : Piotr Mińkowski
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Mastering Spring Cloud

By: Piotr Mińkowski

Overview of this book

Developing, deploying, and operating cloud applications should be as easy as local applications. This should be the governing principle behind any cloud platform, library, or tool. Spring Cloud–an open-source library–makes it easy to develop JVM applications for the cloud. In this book, you will be introduced to Spring Cloud and will master its features from the application developer's point of view. This book begins by introducing you to microservices for Spring and the available feature set in Spring Cloud. You will learn to configure the Spring Cloud server and run the Eureka server to enable service registration and discovery. Then you will learn about techniques related to load balancing and circuit breaking and utilize all features of the Feign client. The book now delves into advanced topics where you will learn to implement distributed tracing solutions for Spring Cloud and build message-driven microservice architectures. Before running an application on Docker container s, you will master testing and securing techniques with Spring Cloud.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Using Spring Cloud Zookeeper


Spring Cloud supports various products used as a part of the microservices architecture. You can find this out when reading this chapter where Consul has been compared with Eureka as a discovery tool, and with Spring Cloud Config as a distributed configuration tool. Zookeeper is another solution that might serve as an alternative choice to those listed previously. As with Consul, it can be used for both service discovery and distributed configuration. To enable Spring Cloud Zookeeper in the project, you should include the spring-cloud-starter-zookeeper-discovery starter for the service discovery feature, or spring-cloud-starter-zookeeper-config for the configuration server feature. Alternatively, you may declare a spring-cloud-starter-zookeeper-all dependency that activates all functionalities for the application. Don't forget to include spring-boot-starter-web, which is still required to provide web functionality:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework...