spring-cloud-consul/README.md

Spring Cloud Consul

Preview of Spring Cloud Consul implementation

Running the sample

1. Install consul
2. Run ./run_consul.sh found in the root of this project
3. verify consul is running by visiting http://localhost:8500
4. run mvn package
5. run java -jar spring-cloud-consul-sample/target/spring-cloud-consul-sample-1.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT.jar
6. visit http://localhost:8080, verify that {"serviceId":"<yourhost>:8080","host":"<yourhost>","port":8080} results
7. run java -jar spring-cloud-consul-sample/target/spring-cloud-consul-sample-1.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT.jar --server.port=8081
8. visit http://localhost:8080 again, verify that {"serviceId":"<yourhost>:8081","host":"<yourhost>","port":8081} eventually shows up in the results in a round robbin fashion (may take a minute or so).