We may run the Zipkin server locally in several ways. One of these ways involves using a Docker container. The following command launches an in-memory server instance:
docker run -d --name zipkin -p 9411:9411 openzipkin/zipkin
After running the Docker container, the Zipkin API is available at http://192.168.99.100:9411. Alternatively, you can start it using Java libraries and the Spring Boot application. To enable Zipkin for your application, you should include the following dependencies to your Maven pom.xml file, as shown in the following code fragment. The default versions are managed by spring-cloud-dependencies. For our example application, I have used Edgware.RELEASE Spring Cloud Release Train:
<dependency> ...
