Solving common microservices problems with Spring cloud consul

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Solving common microservices problems with Spring cloud consul

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Proposed article introduction

Consul is a distributed service discovery and configuration system. It is a distributed key-value store that provides a way to manage configuration across multiple servers. It solves some of the most common microservices problems like:-

1. Distributed configuration - enforces the rule that ensures that all the services use the same configuration.
2. Health checks - ensures that the services are running and healthy.
3. Service discovery - provides a way to discover the services running on the network. It provides a method of registering and unregistering the network location of service instances.

Spring Boot consul is a Spring Boot starter that provides a convenient way to integrate Consul with Spring Boot. In addition, it provides a convenient way to configure Consul and Spring Boot. Consul is simple to use and provides the functionalities not provided by other distributed configuration systems like zookeeper or etcd.

The article will explain integrating a Spring Boot microservice application with Consul and deploying a distributed configuration and health check services.

Key takeaways

1. Consul and Spring Boot integration.
2. Distributed Microservices health checks.
3. Distributed microservices configuration.

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The article will provide a detailed explanation of integrating Consul in a Spring Boot application. Unfortunately, most of the available tutorials for distributed configuration and health checks only explain zookeeper and etcd, which are very common, making it hard to find a detailed tutorial on integrating Consul for distributed health checks and configuration.

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