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Hands-On Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud

By : Magnus Larsson
Book Image

Hands-On Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud

By: Magnus Larsson

Overview of this book

Microservices architecture allows developers to build and maintain applications with ease, and enterprises are rapidly adopting it to build software using Spring Boot as their default framework. With this book, you’ll learn how to efficiently build and deploy microservices using Spring Boot. This microservices book will take you through tried and tested approaches to building distributed systems and implementing microservices architecture in your organization. Starting with a set of simple cooperating microservices developed using Spring Boot, you’ll learn how you can add functionalities such as persistence, make your microservices reactive, and describe their APIs using Swagger/OpenAPI. As you advance, you’ll understand how to add different services from Spring Cloud to your microservice system. The book also demonstrates how to deploy your microservices using Kubernetes and manage them with Istio for improved security and traffic management. Finally, you’ll explore centralized log management using the EFK stack and monitor microservices using Prometheus and Grafana. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build microservices that are scalable and robust using Spring Boot and Spring Cloud.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Title Page

Testing APIs manually

That concludes the implementation of our microservices. Let's try them out by performing the following steps:

  1. Build and start them up as background processes.
  2. Use curl to call the composite API.
  3. Stop them.

First, build and start-up each microservice as a background process, as follows:

cd $BOOK_HOME/Chapter03/2-basic-rest-services/

./gradlew build

Once the build completes, we can launch our microservices as background processes to the Terminal process with the following code:

java -jar microservices/product-composite-service/build/libs/*.jar &
java -jar microservices/product-service/build/libs/*.jar &
java -jar microservices/recommendation-service/build/libs/*.jar &
java -jar microservices/review-service/build/libs/*.jar &

A lot of log messages will be written to the Terminal, but after a few seconds, things will calm down and...