Mastering Spring Cloud

Preparing an application

When deploying an application based on Spring Cloud components to Heroku, we no longer have to perform any extra changes in its source code or add any additional libraries, which we do when running it locally. The only difference here is in the configuration settings, where we should set an address in order to integrate the application with service discovery, databases, or any other add-on that can be enabled for your microservice. The current example, which is the same as the examples provided for Pivotal's deployment, is to store data in MongoDB that is assigned to the application as an mLab service. Additionally, here, each client registers itself on the Eureka server, which is deployed as piomin-discovery-service ...