SVN & filesystem also supported (see implementations of org.springframework.cloud.config.server.EnvironmentR epository) ▸ Multiple security options w/Spring Security (HTTP Basic -> OAuth bearer tokens) ▸ Push updates via Spring Cloud Bus
Config Server failure - boot with defaults (e.g. port 8080) ▸ To enable use spring.cloud.config.failFast=true ▸ Enable retries: ▸ Add spring-retry and spring-boot-starter-aop ▸ spring.cloud.config.retry.
server ▸ Maintains registry of clients with metadata ▸ Host/port ▸ Health indicator URL ▸ Client heartbeats (30 sec default - changing not encouraged) ▸ Lease renewed with server ▸ Service available when client & server(s) metadata cache all in sync ▸ Can take up to 3 heart beats
load balancer ▸ Provides single point of entry to services ▸ Including single point of authentication ▸ By default creates route for every service in Eureka ▸ Refer to http://localhost/credit-service routes to http://credit- service ▸ Filters provide limited entry points to system
via Zuul proxy ▸ Setup Spring Boot application with @EnableSidecar ▸ Configure for your service: ▸ sidecar.port=… + sidecar.health-ui=… ▸ Access all services by Zuul URL (Sidecar running on port 80) ▸ http://localhost/config-server
breached (20 failures in 5 seconds) => breaker kicks in ▸ Default timeout threshold 1 second ▸ Per dependency thread pools ▸ Async command support (not Spring @Async) ▸ Sync or async fallback
Makes available various application metrics via /metrics endpoint ▸ Integration also available with DropWizard metrics (add dependency) ▸ Spring Cloud ▸ Spectator (supersedes Servo) - metrics collection ▸ Atlas - metrics backend
- e.g. CORS filters ▸ ADD (Annotation driven development) ▸ Dependency management ▸ RestTemplates - Ribbon enabled != Standard HTTP ▸ Lack of proper polygot support - libraries are in Java (Sidecar is OK as a middle ground) ▸ Spring Hystrix documentation is pretty light