All our microservices will connect to a Service Registry. We will use the Discovery service provided by the Spring Cloud Services for PCF.
Underneath the covers, this discovery service is implemented using the Spring Cloud Netflix - Eureka.
As such, all we have to do to implement a discovery service is to create a service instance.
- Log in to the Apps Manager through your browser. The URL will be:
https://console.<your_cloud_foundry_url>/
Go the Marketplace and choose a Service Registry for Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
When prompted for the name of the service, insert "discovery-service" and bind it to the space you are using to deploy your applications.
You can pick any name of the service, however, the service is already specified in the manifest files, so it is easier to re-use that name. If you do modify the name, ensure you modify it in the manifest files as well.
The registry server has a UI that can be accessed on the link provided in the console UI. Find the discovery service you created and click on Manage.
If you deployed your own Discovery service or are running it locally, you can also access the UI by going to the deployed application's URL.
You can now move on to Creating the Circuit Breaker Dashboard