Mastering Spring Cloud

Running Eureka on the server side

Running the Eureka Server within a Spring Boot application is not a difficult task. Let's take a look at how this can be done:

1. First, the right dependency has to be included to our project. Obviously, we will use a starter for that:

<dependency>    <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>    <artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-eureka-server</artifactId></dependency>

2. Eureka Server should also be enabled on the main application class:

@SpringBootApplication@EnableEurekaServerpublic class DiscoveryApplication {    public static void main(String[] args) {        new SpringApplicationBuilder(DiscoveryApplication.class).web(true).run(args);    }}

3. It is interesting that together with the server starter, client's dependencies ...