I have two microservices. A Spring Cloud Config Server and another module that implements Spring Cloud Config Client. When I use the default configuration for the Spring Cloud Config Server service (localhost:8888) I can start it locally without any issues, after which I can start my other module as well, using a bootstrap.yml, it clearly finds the Config Server, fetches its properties and starts properly. All good. Now I'd like to push both of these services to Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
The Config Server service works just fine, service is up and running in my Space, and using the browser I can verify that it can still fetch the property files from the specific GitHub repository.
The problem is the other module, the client. I've replaced the default localhost:8888 in its bootstrap.yml file (spring.cloud.config.url parameter) to the now active service in the cloud using the Route bound to it and tried to start it locally. Unfortunately now it simply timeouts during startup. At this point I tried to specify longer timeouts but nothing helps.
Interesting thing is that if I directly copy the URL from the logs that timeouts I see it works properly in the browser locally. So why not in IntelliJ when I try to package the client with the changed parameter?
Sorry, I can't include much details here, but I hope maybe there is a straightforward solution that I've missed. Thanks!
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I am creating a simple project in microservices using spring boot and netflix OSS to get my hands dirty. I have created two services
config service which has to register itself in discovery(eureka)
service.
discovery service which requires config service to be running to get its configuration.
Now when I am starting these services, both services fails due to inter dependency. What are the best practices resolve this issue and which one to start first.
PS:- I know I am creating circular dependency, But what is the way to deal with situation like this where I want to keep eureka configuration also with the config server
Thanks
I believe that you can find the answer for your question in the official spring cloud config server documentation:
Here: http://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-config/spring-cloud-config.html#_spring_cloud_config_client
Basically you have to choose between a "Config First Bootstrap" or "Discovery First Bootstrap".
From the docs:
"If you are using a `DiscoveryClient implementation, such as Spring Cloud Netflix and Eureka Service Discovery or Spring Cloud Consul (Spring Cloud Zookeeper does not support this yet), then you can have the Config Server register with the Discovery Service if you want to, but in the default "Config First" mode, clients won’t be able to take advantage of the registration.
If you prefer to use DiscoveryClient to locate the Config Server, you can do that by setting spring.cloud.config.discovery.enabled=true (default "false"). The net result of that is that client apps all need a bootstrap.yml (or an environment variable) with the appropriate discovery configuration. (...)"
I am exploring Heroku. I have a project which has 10 micro services. One of which is a configuration server which takes care of managing configuration for all services using git hub.
I want to use Heroku for deploying these services but I am not sure how would my Spring Boot Configuration Server would work as Heroku provides a way to configure each hosted app separately(Can configure DB settings for individual app).
Any suggestions/ thoughts would be appreciated.
I found solution to my problem, sharing it for a reference.
Just need to use the addons on Heroku and use the addons config details in any of my config file which can be easily managed by the config server through git.
For an instance, if you are having a addon of Postgres, you would get configuration from Heroku for it(url, username, password etc). Use this information in the configuration file which is being managed by config server.
I have spring web application (not spring boot) running in AWS. I am trying to create centralized configuration server. How to refresh the spring-cloud-client after the changing the properties? As per tutorial
Actuator endpoint by sending an empty HTTP POST to the client’s refresh endpoint, http://localhost:8080/refresh, and then confirm it worked by reviewing the http://localhost:8080/message endpoint.
But my aws Ec2 instances are behind the loadbalancer so i can't invoke the client url. I didn't understand the netflix Eureka and Ribbon much but it seems like adding another level of load balancer in the client side. I don't like this approach. Just to change a property i don't want to make the existing project unnecessarily complex. Is there any other way? or Am I misunderstood Eureka/Ribbon usage?
I have looked at the spring-cloud-config-client-without-spring-boot, spring-cloud-config-client-without-auto-configuration none of them have answer. First thread was answered in 2015. Wondering is there any update?
To get the configuration properties from a config server. You can do a http request. Example:
From the documentation we can see:
/{application}/{profile}[/{label}]
/{application}-{profile}.yml <- example
/{label}/{application}-{profile}.yml
/{application}-{profile}.properties
/{label}/{application}-{profile}.properties
So if you would do a request to http://localhost:8080/applicationName-activeProfile.yml you would receive the properties in .yml format for the application with that name and active profile. Spring boot config clients would automatically provide these values but you will have to provide em manually.
You don't need Eureka/Ribbon for this to work, it's a separate component.
More info: http://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-static/spring-cloud.html#_spring_cloud_config
Maybe you could even use spring-cloud-config but I'm not sure what extra configuration is needed without spring-boot.
https://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-config/
I created spring cloud config server and client and they work as expected. I have added #RefreshScope to my client and I am able to see the new properties getting fetched after hitting /refresh endpoint. But I was told that when I deploy it in cloud foundry environment , I must integrate it with RabbitMQ in order for all the instances to receive the refresh message. Is it possible to point me to a link which explains this problem and solution in detail?
Spring Cloud Bus
This is what you need in order to propagate configuration changes to all of your servers via a message broker such as RabbitMQ.
GitHub Project
Documentation
Follow the instructions in the links above you're good to go.
So I assume your application runs as single instance configuration. In that case, you don't need spring cloud bus based refresh and just hitting the {app}/actuator/refresh would be enough. Only if you scale out your app, we would need such setup with a queue like RabbitMQ or kakfa.
I need to do some processing on the endpoint classes before they can be deployed and then deploy them manually. However it seems simply having a class annotated with #ServerEndpoint in my war is enough to deploy the endpoint in Tomcat and when I try to manually deploy later obviously I can't because the URL has been deployed already. Is there any way to disable the autodiscovery of endpoints?
Looking at the source for the version I'm using - 8.0.28, there's no dedicated option. The code deploying the endpoints is in org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsSci. The quickest 'shurest' hack is to put my endpoints into the javax.websocket package. I elected to use their ServerApplicationConfig hook instead which serves my purposes if with some minor issues.