Consul and Spring Boot

Introduction #

The Consul integration in Spring Boot is comparable to the integration of Eureka (see Eureka: Service Discovery).

There is a configuration file application.properties. Here is the relevant section:

spring.application.name=catalog
spring.cloud.consul.host=consul
spring.cloud.consul.port=8500
spring.cloud.consul.discovery.preferIpAddress=true
spring.cloud.consul.discovery.instanceId=\${spring.applicat

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