Chapter Conclusion

In this lesson, we'll look at a quick conclusion to the chapter.

Setting up a microservices system with Consul is another option for a synchronous system.

Summary #

This infrastructure meets the typical challenges of synchronous microservices as follows.

Service discovery #

Service discovery is covered by Consul. Consul is very flexible; due to the DNS interface and Consul Template it can be used with many technologies. This is particularly important in the context of microservices. While a system might not need to use a variety of technologies from the start, in the long term it is advantageous to be able to integrate new technologies.

Increased transparency #

Consul is more transparent to use than Eureka. The Spring Cloud ...