Additional Configuration and Discovery Features

We talked a great deal about service discovery and distributed configuration in Chapter 4, Service Discovery, and Chapter 5, Distributed Configuration with Spring Cloud Config. We discussed two solutions in detail. The first of them, Eureka, is provided by Netflix OSS and has been adopted by Spring Cloud for service discovery. The second was the Spring Cloud Config project dedicated only to a distributed configuration. However, there are some interesting solutions on the market effectively combining both of these features. Currently, Spring Cloud supports two of them:

  • Consul: This product is built by HashiCorp. It is a highly available, distributed solution designed to connect and configure ...

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