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spring-bootmicroservicesspring-cloudspring-cloud-netflix
user2396010
user2396010

Reputation:

what is the difference between netflix zuul server and netflix eureka server?

i have created two java spring-boot micro services they are 1) producer 2) consumer and i have used spring eureka server for service registration and discovery . it worked fine . then what is the use of Netflix Zuul.

Upvotes: 9

Views: 17546

Answers (3)

ring bearer
ring bearer

Reputation: 20773

If you have enough experience in the domain, you could look at zuul as an API gateway like Apigee. It is very feature rich and touches up on a lot of different concerns like routing, monitoring and most importantly, security. And eureka as a service discovery platform that allows you to load balance (in Linux terms the nginx or haproxy) and fail over between your service instances.

Upvotes: 2

Akhil
Akhil

Reputation: 1254

Let's suppose you have 20 services to which user can interact to, and of course we are not going to expose each and every services publicly because that will be madness (because all services will have different ports and context), so the best approach will be to use an API gateway which will act as single entry point access to our application (developed in micro service pattern) and that is where Zuul comes into picture. Zuul act as a reverse proxy to all your micro-services running behind it and is capable of following

  • Authentication

  • Dynamic Routing

  • Service Migration

  • Load Shedding

  • Security

  • Static Response handling

  • Active/Active traffic management

You can go through documentation here

Upvotes: 15

Divs
Divs

Reputation: 1618

Typically the backend services that perform the server side business operations (i.e. core) are not exposed publicly due to many reasons. They are shielded by some Gateway layer that also serves as reverse-proxy. Netflix Zuul serves as this gateway layer which easily gives you the capabilities as mentioned by @Apollo and here

Upvotes: 1

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