Features of Consul

• Distributed configuration

• Service registration and discovery

• Distributed events

• Distributed locking and sessions

• Supports multiple data centers

• Built in, user-friendly user interface

See the intro for more information.

• Spring Cloud DiscoveryClient implementation

  • supports Spring Cloud Gateway

  • supports Spring Cloud LoadBalancer

• Consul based PropertySource loaded during the 'bootstrap' phase.

• Spring Cloud Bus implementation based on Consul events

1. Run docker-compose up

2. Verify consul is running by visiting http://localhost:8500

3. Run mvn package this will bring in the required spring cloud maven repositories and build

4. Run java -jar spring-cloud-consul-sample/target/spring-cloud-consul-sample-${VERSION}.jar

5. visit http://localhost:8080, verify that {"serviceId":"<yourhost>:8080","host":"<yourhost>","port":8080} results

6. run java -jar spring-cloud-consul-sample/target/spring-cloud-consul-sample-${VERSION}.jar --server.port=8081

7. visit http://localhost:8080 again, verify that {"serviceId":"<yourhost>:8081","host":"<yourhost>","port":8081} eventually shows up in the results in a round robbin fashion (may take a minute or so).

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