Spring Cloud Config is Spring’s client/server approach for storing and serving distributed configurations across multiple applications and environments.
In this write-up, we’ll focus on an example of how to setup a Git-backed config server, use it in a simple REST application server and setup a secure environment including encrypted property values.
In this article, we’ll introduce client-side service discovery via “Spring Cloud Netflix Eureka“.
Client-side service discovery allows services to find and communicate with each other without hardcoding hostname and port. The only ‘fixed point’ in such an architecture consists of a service registry with which each service has to register.
