Learning Spring Boot 2.0 - Second Edition

Securing the Eureka Server

The last bastion to secure is our Eureka Server. To do so, we need to adopt similar steps to what we did with the Config Server.

First, add Spring Security to the Eureka Server, as follows:

    compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-security') 

This preceding dependency will enable Spring Security automatically. However, just like Config Server, it will generate a random password every time it launches. To pin the password, we need to add the same UserDetailsService bean as follows:

  @Bean  UserDetailsService userDetailsService() {    return new InMemoryUserDetailsManager(      User        .withUsername("user")        .password("password")        .roles("USER").build());  }

The recommended way to plug in the username/password settings ...