Demo application is a tiny Spring Cloud application which has three services. Web and BookServicewill register itself to Eureka Service during boot. Web service depends on BookService, when it is invoked, it will find available instances of BookService from Eureka Server. Web will call BookService REST API to fulfill its result.

Run this command to build all images, it will rebuild all images even if no code change.

./build-all.sh

Run demo application in local environment is wasy, there is an all-in-one compose file which allows you to run all the services.

cd compose
docker-compose -f all-in-one.yml up -d

Find which port mapping for each services.

$ docker-compose -f all-in-one.yaml ps
        Name                       Command               State            Ports
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
compose_bookservice_1   java -Djava.security.egd=f ...   Up
compose_eureka_1        java -Djava.security.egd=f ...   Up      0.0.0.0:8761->8761/tcp
compose_web_1           java -Djava.security.egd=f ...   Up      0.0.0.0:32771->8080/tcp

You will see eureka maps to port 8761 of localhost while web maps to 32771 in this case.

Access Eureka server through port 8761. You will see this Eureka server has one replica and two services registered.

http://localhost:8761

Docker allocated an random port for web service, you can get the port number using docker-compose ps command, or you can assign a port number in all-in-one.yml.

Run this command or access it using a web browser.

curl http://localhost:<port>

Let's take a look at compose/all-in-one.yml. There are no version 3 specific compose syntax, you can deploy the application by using docker-compose in local environment, or deploy it to a Docker swarm cluster directly.

version: '3'
services:
  eureka:
    image: binblee/demo-eurekaserver
    ports:
      - "8761:8761"
    ...

  web:
    image: binblee/demo-web
    environment:
      - EUREKA_SERVER_ADDRESS=eureka
    ports:
      - "8080"
    ...

  bookservice:
    image: binblee/demo-bookservice
    environment:
      - EUREKA_SERVER_ADDRESS=eureka
    ...

You can deploy it to a docker swarm cluster like this:

docker stack deploy -f all-in-one.yml springcloud-demo

All in one is good, but you need to consider below factors when you want to run all the services in an production environment.

• deploy Eureka server and applications separately, as Eureka server as an infrasturcture level service will not be updated frequently, it is not proper to deploy it with applications every time the application changes.
• again, Eureka server as infrastructure level need some kind of HA (high availablity).

Let's break the deployment into two compose files. Using eureka.yml you can deply a three-node-cluster of Euerka. All instances have same network alias eureka for which Eureka client will looking for.

eureka.yml

version: '3'
services:
  eureka1:
    image: binblee/demo-eurekaserver
    networks:
      springcloud-overlay:
        aliases:
          - eureka
    ports:
      - "8761:8761"
    environment:
      - ADDITIONAL_EUREKA_SERVER_LIST=http://eureka2:8761/eureka/,http://eureka3:8761/eureka/
    ...
  eureka2:
    image: binblee/demo-eurekaserver
    networks:
      springcloud-overlay:
        aliases:
          - eureka
    ports:
      - "8762:8761"
    environment:
      - ADDITIONAL_EUREKA_SERVER_LIST=http://eureka1:8761/eureka/,http://eureka3:8761/eureka/
    ...
  eureka3:
    image: binblee/demo-eurekaserver
    networks:
      springcloud-overlay:
        aliases:
          - eureka
    ports:
      - "8763:8761"
    environment:
      - ADDITIONAL_EUREKA_SERVER_LIST=http://eureka1:8761/eureka/,http://eureka3:8761/eureka/
    ...
networks:
  springcloud-overlay:
    external:
      name: springcloud-overlay

demoweb.yml gets the content from original all-in-one.yml, adding network properties. All services will connect to springcloud-overlay network.

version: '3'
services:
  web:
    image: binblee/demo-web
    networks:
      - springcloud-overlay
    environment:
      - EUREKA_SERVER_ADDRESS=eureka
    ports:
      - "8080"
    ...

  bookservice:
    image: binblee/demo-bookservice
    networks:
      - springcloud-overlay
    environment:
      - EUREKA_SERVER_ADDRESS=eureka
    ...

networks:
  springcloud-overlay:
    external:
      name: springcloud-overlay

Let's deploy it, noted that springcloud-overlay network needs to be created before eureka and demoweb are deployed.

docker network create -d overlay springcloud-overlay
cd compose/
docker stack deploy -c eureka.yml
docker stack deploy -c demoweb.yml

Access port 8761 of any node in swarm, you will see Eureka instance #1 has two replicas, and services are registered to it. Visit port 8762 and 8763, you will get other two Eureka server, have a try.