This is a quick tutorial for Spring cloud Zuul component. In this tutorial, we will explore Zuul functionality and will create a gateway to our Spring cloud environment using Zuul.

What is Zuul?

Zuul is a gateway component in Spring cloud ecosystem. It provides access to the services present in our Spring cloud from services/applications which are outside of our environment.

Zuul creates a single entry point for our application which we can use from the outside world. In our environment, we might have 100’s of services running, each one serving a special purpose. Now if we want to access those services via another network or from the internet, then exposing those 100 services will not be a great idea.

In such cases, Zuul comes handy. It provides us with a single proxy to access those services. Apart from that Zuul also provides request filters. We can use those to check/process each and every request before it hits the actual service.

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This tutorial is a continuation of Spring Cloud: Adding Hystrix Circuit Breaker. In the previous tutorial, we had an overview of Hystrix circuit breaker and we have implemented the same in our producer application. Now in this tutorial, we will see it in action.

This is a quick tutorial on Hystrix circuit break. This tutorial gives an overview of Hystrix circuit breaker component present in Spring Cloud and how we can implement it in our project.

What is Hystrix Circuit Breaker?

Hystrix circuit breaker follows the circuit breaker pattern. In layman terms, you can visualize it similar to your electrical circuit break present at your home. Firstly, Hystrix allows us to define fallback methods. Secondly, Whenever a method starts throwing errors due to any reason and it has a fallback method defined, Hystrix will invoke the fallback method rather than invoking the main method. That is it will isolate the erroneous method for time being.

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In this tutorial, we will be creating a spring boot application and we will be adding a fallback method using Hystrix.

In this tutorial we will be exploring Spring Cloud Feign component.

What is Feign?

Feign is a declarative REST Client. With the help of Feign, you can declare web services as interfaces in your application. And you can simply use those interfaces to consume those web services. While runtime Feign will provide actual REST API implementation.

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To give you a brief idea… In this tutorial, we will be consuming web service using Feign.

This is a quick tutorial for creating a REST API client using Spring Cloud Ribbon component. For this tutorial, you will need a running Eureka server and a Eureka client application. In case if you do not have Eureka server or a Eureka client application, check out my previous posts which explain how to setup eureka server and how to develop a eureka client application.

What is Ribbon?

In short, Ribbon is a load balancer. Let’s say you have a service which is used by 1000’s of customers. In that case, you may have multiple instances of service running on multiple servers for load balancing purpose. Now if you want to consume that service in another service, you should not hard code its URL. Because that will always point to only one service and will defeat the purpose of load balancing.

Ribbon helps us to solve this issue. Ribbon on backend talks with Eureka server and will get all instances of services and try to distribute the load across instances.

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To give you a brief idea about the project… We will have a producer which we will be launching multiple times. We will be creating a consumer with Ribbon which will consume the service exposed by the producer. At the same time, it will take care of load balancing as well.

In this post, we will be creating a eureka client application. We will be creating a sample Student service. This service will have two functionalities viz. to retrieve information about all students or you can pass a specific student id and retrieve information of that particular student.

We will be also making some changes in the application.properties file to spin multiple instances of this application on same/one machine.

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Before we begin, you will need to set up the eureka server. In case if you don’t know how to setup eureka server then please checkout Setting Up Eureka Server Using Spring Cloud first.

This is a quick tutorial for consuming services exposed by one Eureka client application in another Eureka client application. This tutorial has the prerequisite of a running Eureka server and a Eureka client application as well. In case if you do not have Eureka server or a Eureka client application, check out my previous posts in this series which explains how to setup eureka server and how to develop a eureka client application.

The eureka client which we will be developing in this tutorial will be registered in eureka server and will consume service exposed by another client application.

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To give you a brief idea about what we are developing… We will be creating a Eureka client in this tutorial. The client will be a spring boot application and will expose one rest endpoint. The client will also internally consume service exposed by another eureka client application.