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Table of Contents
Spring Cloud 0
Spring Cloud 1
Features 1.1
Cloud Native Applications 2
Spring Cloud Context: Application Context Services 2.1
Spring Cloud Commons: Common Abstractions 2.2
Spring Cloud Config 3
Quick Start 3.1
Spring Cloud Config Server 3.2
Spring Cloud Config Client 3.3
Spring Cloud Netflix 4
Service Discovery: Eureka Clients 4.1
Service Discovery: Eureka Server 4.2
Circuit Breaker: Hystrix Clients 4.3
Circuit Breaker: Hystrix Dashboard 4.4
Customizing the AMQP ConnectionFactory 4.5
Client Side Load Balancer: Ribbon 4.6
Declarative REST Client: Feign 4.7
External Configuration: Archaius 4.8
Router and Filter: Zuul 4.9
Spring Cloud Bus 5
Quick Start 5.1
Addressing an Instance 5.2
Addressing all instances of a service 5.3
Application Context ID must be unique 5.4
Customizing the AMQP ConnectionFactory 5.5
Spring Boot Cloud CLI 6
Installation 6.1
Writing Groovy Scripts and Running Applications 6.2
Encryption and Decryption 6.3
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Table of Contents
Features
Cloud Native Applications
Spring Cloud Context: Application Context Services
The Bootstrap Application Context
Application Context Hierarchies
Changing the Location of Bootstrap Properties
Customizing the Bootstrap Configuration
Customizing the Bootstrap Property Sources
Environment Changes
Refresh Scope
Encryption and Decryption
Endpoints
Spring Cloud Commons: Common Abstractions
Spring RestTemplate as a Load Balancer Client
Multiple RestTemplate objects
Spring Cloud Config
Quick Start
Client Side Usage
Spring Cloud Config Server
Environment Repository
Health Indicator
Security
Encryption and Decryption
Key Management
Creating a Key Store for Testing
Using Multiple Keys and Key Rotation
Embedding the Config Server
Spring Cloud Config Client
Config First Bootstrap
Eureka First Bootstrap
Config Client Fail Fast
Config Client Retry
Locating Remote Configuration Resources
Security
Spring Cloud Netflix
Service Discovery: Eureka Clients
Registering with Eureka
Spring Cloud 5
Spring Cloud
Spring Cloud 6
Spring Cloud
Spring Cloud provides tools for developers to quickly build some of the common patterns in
distributed systems (e.g. configuration management, service discovery, circuit breakers,
intelligent routing, micro-proxy, control bus, one-time tokens, global locks, leadership
election, distributed sessions, cluster state). Coordination of distributed systems leads to
boiler plate patterns, and using Spring Cloud developers can quickly stand up services and
applications that implement those patterns. They will work well in any distributed
environment, including the developer’s own laptop, bare metal data centres, and managed
platforms such as Cloud Foundry.
Spring Cloud 7
Spring Cloud
Spring Cloud focuses on providing good out of box experience for typical use cases and
extensibility mechanism to cover others.
Distributed/versioned configuration
Routing
Service-to-service calls
Load balancing
Circuit Breakers
Global locks
Distributed messaging
Features 8
Spring Cloud
Cloud Native is a style of application development that encourages easy adoption of best
practices in the areas of continuous delivery and value-driven development. A related
discipline is that of building 12-factor Apps in which development practices are aligned with
delivery and operations goals, for instance by using declarative programming and
management and monitoring. Spring Cloud facilitates these styles of development in a
number of specific ways and the starting point is a set of features that all components in a
distributed system either need or need easy access to when required.
Many of those features are covered by Spring Boot, which we build on in Spring Cloud.
Some more are delivered by Spring Cloud as two libraries: Spring Cloud Context and Spring
Cloud Commons. Spring Cloud Context provides utilities and special services for the
ApplicationContext of a Spring Cloud application (bootstrap context, encryption, refresh
scope and environment endpoints). Spring Cloud Commons is a set of abstractions and
common classes used in different Spring Cloud implementations (eg. Spring Cloud Netflix
vs. Spring Cloud Consul).
If you are getting an exception due to "Illegal key size" and you are using Sun’s JDK, you
need to install the Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy
Files. See the following links for more information:
Extract files into JDK/jre/lib/security folder (whichever version of JRE/JDK x64/x86 you are
using).
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Spring Boot has an opinionated view of how to build an application with Spring: for instance
it has conventional locations for common configuration file, and endpoints for common
management and monitoring tasks. Spring Cloud builds on top of that and adds a few
features that probably all components in a system would use or occasionally need.
The bootstrap context uses a different convention for locating external configuration than the
main application context, so instead of application.yml (or .properties ) you use
bootstrap.yml , keeping the external configuration for bootstrap and main context nicely
separate. Example:
bootstrap.yml
spring:
application:
name: foo
cloud:
config:
uri: ${SPRING_CONFIG_URI:http://localhost:8888}
application context will contain additional property sources, compared to building the same
context without Spring Cloud Config. The additional property sources are:
properties. An example would be properties from the Spring Cloud Config Server. See
below for instructions on how to customize the contents of this property source.
Because of the ordering rules of property sources the "bootstrap" entries take precedence,
but note that these do not contain any data from bootstrap.yml , which has very low
precedence, but can be used to set defaults.
You can extend the context hierarchy by simply setting the parent context of any
ApplicationContext you create, e.g. using its own interface, or with the
The bootstrap context will be the parent of the most senior ancestor that you create yourself.
Every context in the hierarchy will have its own "bootstrap" property source (possibly empty)
to avoid promoting values inadvertently from parents down to their descendants. Every
context in the hierarchy can also (in principle) have a different spring.application.name and
hence a different remote property source if there is a Config Server. Normal Spring
application context behaviour rules apply to property resolution: properties from a child
context override those in the parent, by name and also by property source name (if the child
has a property source with the same name as the parent, the one from the parent is not
included in the child).
Note that the SpringApplicationBuilder allows you to share an Environment amongst the
whole hierarchy, but that is not the default. Thus, sibling contexts in particular do not need to
have the same profiles or property sources, even though they will share common things with
their parent.
properties behave like the spring.config.* variants with the same name, in fact they are
the Environment API in the context you are building) then properties in that profile will
be loaded as well, just like in a regular Spring Boot app, e.g. from bootstrap-
list of Spring @Configuration classes which will be used to create the context. Any beans
that you want to be available to the main application context for autowiring can be created
here, and also there is a special contract for @Beans of type
ApplicationContextInitializer . Classes can be marked with an @Order if you want to
The bootstrap process ends by injecting initializers into the main SpringApplication
instance (i.e. the normal Spring Boot startup sequence, whether it is running as a standalone
app or deployed in an application server). First a bootstrap context is created from the
classes found in spring.factories and then all @Beans of type
ApplicationContextInitializer are added to the main SpringApplication before it is
started.
to insert additional properties from a different server, or from a database, for instance.
@Configuration
public class CustomPropertySourceLocator implements PropertySourceLocator {
@Override
public PropertySource<?> locate(Environment environment) {
return new MapPropertySource("customProperty",
Collections.<String, Object>singletonMap("property.from.sample.custom.source", "worke
}
The Environment that is passed in is the one for the ApplicationContext about to be
created, i.e. the one that we are supplying additional property sources for. It will already
have its normal Spring Boot-provided property sources, so you can use those to locate a
property source specific to this Environment (e.g. by keying it on the
spring.application.name , as is done in the default Config Server property source locator).
If you create a jar with this class in it and then add a META-INF/spring.factories containing:
org.springframework.cloud.bootstrap.BootstrapConfiguration=sample.custom.Cus
then the "customProperty" PropertySource will show up in any application that includes that
jar on its classpath.
Environment Changes
The application will listen for an EnvironmentChangedEvent and react to the change in a
couple of standard ways (additional ApplicationListeners can be added as @Beans by the
user in the normal way). When an EnvironmentChangedEvent is observed it will have a list of
key values that have changed, and the application will use those to:
Note that the Config Client does not by default poll for changes in the Environment , and
generally we would not recommend that approach for detecting changes (although you could
set it up with a @Scheduled annotation). If you have a scaled-out client application then it is
better to broadcast the EnvironmentChangedEvent to all the instances instead of having them
polling for changes (e.g. using the Spring Cloud Bus).
The EnvironmentChangedEvent covers a large class of refresh use cases, as long as you can
actually make a change to the Environment and publish the event (those APIs are public
and part of core Spring). You can verify the changes are bound to @ConfigurationProperties
beans by visiting the /configprops endpoint (normal Spring Boot Actuator feature). For
instance a DataSource can have its maxPoolSize changed at runtime (the default
DataSource created by Spring Boot is an @ConfigurationProperties bean) and grow
Refresh Scope
A Spring @Bean that is marked as @RefreshScope will get special treatment when there is a
configuration change. This addresses the problem of stateful beans that only get their
configuration injected when they are initialized. For instance if a DataSource has open
connections when the database URL is changed via the Environment , we probably want the
holders of those connections to be able to complete what they are doing. Then the next time
someone borrows a connection from the pool he gets one with the new URL.
Refresh scope beans are lazy proxies that initialize when they are used (i.e. when a method
is called), and the scope acts as a cache of initialized values. To force a bean to re-initialize
on the next method call you just need to invalidate its cache entry.
The RefreshScope is a bean in the context and it has a public method refreshAll() to
refresh all beans in the scope by clearing the target cache. There is also a refresh(String)
method to refresh an individual bean by name. This functionality is exposed in the /refresh
endpoint (over HTTP or JMX).
is a valid key then they will be decrypted before the main application context gets the
Environment . To use the encryption features in a client you need to include Spring Security
include::jce.adoc
Endpoints
For a Spring Boot Actuator application there are some additional management endpoints:
/refresh for re-loading the boot strap context and refreshing the @RefreshScope beans
/pause and /resume for calling the Lifecycle methods ( stop() and start() on the
ApplicationContext )
Patterns such as service discovery, load balancing and circuit breakers lend themselves to a
common abstraction layer that can be consumed by all Spring Cloud clients, independent of
the implementation (e.g. discovery via Eureka or Consul).
The URI needs to use a virtual host name (ie. service name, not a host name). The Ribbon
client is used to create a full physical address. See RibbonAutoConfiguration for details of
how the RestTemplate is set up.
Qualifier :
@Autowired
@LoadBalanced
private RestTemplate loadBalanced;
Spring Cloud Config provides server and client-side support for externalized configuration in
a distributed system. With the Config Server you have a central place to manage external
properties for applications across all environments. The concepts on both client and server
map identically to the Spring Environment and PropertySource abstractions, so they fit very
well with Spring applications, but can be used with any application running in any language.
As an application moves through the deployment pipeline from dev to test and into
production you can manage the configuration between those environments and be certain
that applications have everything they need to run when they migrate. The default
implementation of the server storage backend uses git so it easily supports labelled versions
of configuration environments, as well as being accessible to a wide range of tooling for
managing the content. It is easy to add alternative implementations and plug them in with
Spring configuration.
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like to contribute to this section of the documentation or if you find an error, please find the
source code and issue trackers in the project at
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$ cd spring-cloud-config-server
$ mvn spring-boot:run
The server is a Spring Boot application so you can build the jar file and run that ( java -jar
… ) or pull it down from a Maven repository. Then try it out as a client:
$ curl localhost:8888/foo/development
{"name":"development","label":"master","propertySources":[
{"name":"https://github.com/scratches/config-repo/foo-development.properti
{"name":"https://github.com/scratches/config-repo/foo.properties","source"
]}
The default strategy for locating property sources is to clone a git repository (at
"spring.cloud.config.server.git.uri") and use it to initialize a mini SpringApplication . The
mini-application’s Environment is used to enumerate property sources and publish them via
a JSON endpoint.
/{application}/{profile}[/{label}]
/{application}-{profile}.yml
/{label}/{application}-{profile}.yml
/{application}-{profile}.properties
/{label}/{application}-{profile}.properties
The YAML and properties forms are coalesced into a single map, even if the origin of the
values (reflected in the "propertySources" of the "standard" form) has multiple sources.
Spring Cloud Config Server pulls configuration for remote clients from a git repository (which
must be provided):
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spring:
cloud:
config:
server:
git:
uri: https://github.com/spring-cloud-samples/config-repo
pom.xml
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<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>1.2.3.RELEASE</version>
<relativePath /> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>1.0.1.RELEASE</version>
<type>pom</type>
<scope>import</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-config</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
Then you can create a standard Spring Boot application, like this simple HTTP server:
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@RequestMapping("/")
public String home() {
return "Hello World!";
}
}</pre>
When it runs it will pick up the external configuration from the default local config server on
port 8888 if it is running. To modify the startup behaviour you can change the location of the
config server using bootstrap.properties (like application.properties but for the bootstrap
phase of an application context), e.g.
spring.cloud.config.uri: http://myconfigserver.com
The bootstrap properties will show up in the /env endpoint as a high-priority property
source, e.g.
$ curl localhost:8080/env
{
"profiles":[],
"configService:https://github.com/spring-cloud-samples/config-repo/bar.pro
"servletContextInitParams":{},
"systemProperties":{...},
...
}
(a property source called "configService:/" contains the property "foo" with value "bar" and is
highest priority).
| Note | the URL in the property source name is the git repository not the config server URL. |
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The Server provides an HTTP, resource-based API for external configuration (name-value
pairs, or equivalent YAML content). The server is easily embeddable in a Spring Boot
application using the @EnableConfigServer annotation.
Environment Repository
Where do you want to store the configuration data for the Config Server? The strategy that
governs this behaviour is the EnvironmentRepository , serving Environment objects. This
Environment is a shallow copy of the domain from the Spring Environment (including
three variables:
{label} which is a server side feature labelling a "versioned" set of config files.
Repository implementations generally behave just like a Spring Boot application loading
configuration files from a "spring.config.name" equal to the {application} parameter, and
"spring.profiles.active" equal to the {profiles} parameter. Precedence rules for profiles are
also the same as in a regular Boot application: active profiles take precedence over defaults,
and if there are multiple profiles the last one wins (like adding entries to a Map ).
bootstrap.yml
spring:
application:
name: foo
profiles:
active: dev,mysql
(as usual with a Spring Boot application, these properties could also be set as environment
variables or command line arguments).
If the repository is file-based, the server will create an Environment from application.yml
(shared between all clients), and foo.yml (with foo.yml taking precedence). If the YAML
files have documents inside them that point to Spring profiles, those are applied with higher
precendence (in order of the profiles listed), and if there are profile-specific YAML (or
properties) files these are also applied with higher precedence than the defaults. Higher
precendence translates to a PropertySource listed earlier in the Environment . (These are
the same rules as apply in a standalone Spring Boot application.)
Git Backend
The default implementation of EnvironmentRepository uses a Git backend, which is very
convenient for managing upgrades and physical environments, and also for auditing
changes. To change the location of the repository you can set the
"spring.cloud.config.server.git.uri" configuration property in the Config Server (e.g. in
application.yml ). If you set it with a file: prefix it should work from a local repository so
you can get started quickly and easily without a server, but in that case the server operates
directly on the local repository without cloning it (it doesn’t matter if it’s not bare because the
Config Server never makes changes to the "remote" repository). To scale the Config Server
up and make it highly available, you would need to have all instances of the server pointing
to the same repository, so only a shared file system would work. Even in that case it is better
to use the ssh: protocol for a shared filesystem repository, so that the server can clone it
and use a local working copy as a cache.
This repository implementation maps the {label} parameter of the HTTP resource to a git
label (commit id, branch name or tag). If the git branch or tag name contains a slash ("/")
then the label in the HTTP URL should be specified with the special string "(_)" instead (to
avoid ambiguity with other URL paths). Be careful with the brackets in the URL if you are
using a command line client like curl (e.g. escape them from the shell with quotes '').
spring:
cloud:
config:
server:
git:
uri: https://github.com/spring-cloud-samples/config-repo
repos:
simple: https://github.com/simple/config-repo
special:
pattern: pattern*,*pattern1*
uri: https://github.com/special/config-repo
local:
pattern: local*
uri: file:/home/configsvc/config-repo
In the above example, if {application} does not match any of the patterns, it will use the
default uri defined under "spring.cloud.config.server.git.uri". For the "simple" repository, the
pattern is "simple" (i.e. it only matches one application named "simple"). The pattern format
is a comma-separated list of application names with wildcards (a pattern beginning with a
wildcard may need to be quoted).
the "one-liner" short cut used in the "simple" example above can only be
Note used if the only property to be set is the URI. If you need to set anything
else (credentials, pattern, etc.) you need to use the full form.
Every repository can also optionally store config files in sub-directories, and patterns to
search for those directories can be specified as searchPaths . For example at the top level:
spring:
cloud:
config:
server:
git:
uri: https://github.com/spring-cloud-samples/config-repo
searchPaths: foo,bar*
In this example the server searches for config files in the top level and in the "foo/" sub-
directory and also any sub-directory whose name begins with "bar".
By default the server clones remote repositories when configuration is first requested. The
server can be configured to clone the repositories at startup. For example at the top level:
spring:
cloud:
config:
server:
git:
uri: https://git/common/config-repo.git
repos:
team-a:
pattern: team-a-*
cloneOnStart: true
uri: http://git/team-a/config-repo.git
team-b:
pattern: team-b-*
cloneOnStart: false
uri: http://git/team-b/config-repo.git
team-c:
pattern: team-c-*
uri: http://git/team-a/config-repo.git
In this example the server clones team-a’s config-repo on startup before it accepts any
requests. All other repositories will not be cloned until configuration from the repository is
requested.
To use HTTP basic authentication on the remote repository add the "username" and
"password" properties separately (not in the URL), e.g.
spring:
cloud:
config:
server:
git:
uri: https://github.com/spring-cloud-samples/config-repo
username: trolley
password: strongpassword
If you don’t use HTTPS and user credentials, SSH should also work out of the box when you
store keys in the default directories ( ~/.ssh ) and the uri points to an SSH location, e.g. "
[email protected]
A filesystem backend is great for getting started quickly and for testing. To
Tip use it in production you need to be sure that the file system is reliable, and
shared across all instances of the Config Server.
This repository implementation maps the {label} parameter of the HTTP resource to a
suffix on the search path, so properties files are loaded from each search location and a
subdirectory with the same name as the label (the labelled properties take precedence in the
Spring Environment).
Health Indicator
Config Server comes with a Health Indicator that checks if the configured
EnvironmentRepository is working. By default it asks the EnvironmentRepository for an
application named app , the default profile and the default label provided by the
EnvironmentRepository implementation.
You can configure the Health Indicator to check more applications along with custom profiles
and custom labels, e.g.
spring:
cloud:
config:
server:
health:
repositories:
myservice:
label: mylabel
myservice-dev:
name: myservice
profiles: development
Security
You are free to secure your Config Server in any way that makes sense to you (from
physical network security to OAuth2 bearer tokens), and Spring Security and Spring Boot
make it easy to do pretty much anything.
To use the default Spring Boot configured HTTP Basic security, just include Spring Security
on the classpath (e.g. through spring-boot-starter-security ). The default is a username of
"user" and a randomly generated password, which isn’t going to be very useful in practice,
so we recommend you configure the password (via security.user.password ) and encrypt it
(see below for instructions on how to do that).
If the remote property sources contain encryted content (values starting with {cipher} ) they
will be decrypted before sending to clients over HTTP. The main advantage of this set up is
that the property values don’t have to be in plain text when they are "at rest" (e.g. in a git
repository). If a value cannot be decrypted it is replaced with an empty string, largely to
prevent cipher text being used as a password and accidentally leaking.
If you are setting up a remote config repository for config client applications it might contain
an application.yml like this, for instance:
application.yml
spring:
datasource:
username: dbuser
password: '{cipher}FKSAJDFGYOS8F7GLHAKERGFHLSAJ'
You can safely push this plain text to a shared git repository and the secret password is
protected.
The server also exposes /encrypt and /decrypt endpoints (on the assumption that these
will be secured and only accessed by authorized agents). If you are editing a remote config
file you can use the Config Server to encrypt values by POSTing to the /encrypt endpoint,
e.g.
The inverse operation is also available via /decrypt (provided the server is configured with
a symmetric key or a full key pair):
Take the encypted value and add the {cipher} prefix before you put it in the YAML or
properties file, and before you commit and push it to a remote, potentially insecure store.
The /encypt and /decrypt endpoints also both accept paths of the form
/*/{name}/{profiles} which can be used to control cryptography per application (name)
and profile when clients call into the main Environment resource.
to control the cryptography in this granular way you must also provide a
Note @Bean of type TextEncryptorLocator that creates a different encryptor per
name and profiles. The one that is provided by default does not do this.
The spring command line client (with Spring Cloud CLI extensions installed) can also be
used to encrypt and decrypt, e.g.
To use a key in a file (e.g. an RSA public key for encyption) prepend the key value with "@"
and provide the file path, e.g.
Key Management
The Config Server can use a symmetric (shared) key or an asymmetric one (RSA key pair).
The asymmetric choice is superior in terms of security, but it is often more convenient to use
a symmetric key since it is just a single property value to configure.
To configure a symmetric key you just need to set encrypt.key to a secret String (or use an
enviroment variable ENCRYPT_KEY to keep it out of plain text configuration files).
To configure an asymmetric key you can either set the key as a PEM-encoded text value (in
encrypt.key ), or via a keystore (e.g. as created by the keytool utility that comes with the
The encryption is done with the public key, and a private key is needed for decryption. Thus
in principle you can configure only the public key in the server if you only want to do
encryption (and are prepared to decrypt the values yourself locally with the private key). In
practice you might not want to do that because it spreads the key management process
around all the clients, instead of concentrating it in the server. On the other hand it’s a useful
option if your config server really is relatively insecure and only a handful of clients need the
encrypted properties.
Put the server.jks file in the classpath (for instance) and then in your application.yml for
the Config Server:
encrypt:
keyStore:
location: classpath:/server.jks
password: letmein
alias: mytestkey
secret: changeme
The keys are passed to a TextEncryptorLocator which can do whatever logic it needs to
locate a TextEncryptor for the cipher. If you have configured a keystore
( encrypt.keystore.location ) the default locator will look for keys in the store with aliases as
supplied by the "key" prefix, i.e. with a cipher text like this:
foo:
bar: `{cipher}{key:testkey}...`
the locator will look for a key named "testkey". A secret can also be supplied via a {secret:…
} value in the prefix, but if it is not the default is to use the keystore password (which is what
you get when you build a keytore and don’t specify a secret). If you do supply a secret it is
recommended that you also encrypt the secrets using a custom SecretLocator .
Key rotation is hardly ever necessary on cryptographic grounds if the keys are only being
used to encrypt a few bytes of configuration data (i.e. they are not being used elsewhere),
but occasionally you might need to change the keys if there is a security breach for instance.
In that case all the clients would need to change their source config files (e.g. in git) and use
a new {key:…} prefix in all the ciphers, checking beforehand of course that the key alias is
available in the Config Server keystore.
under a prefix. The prefix should start but not end with a "/". It is applied to the
@RequestMappings in the Config Server (i.e. underneath the Spring Boot prefixes
A Spring Boot application can take immediate advantage of the Spring Config Server (or
other external property sources provided by the application developer), and it will also pick
up some additional useful features related to Environment change events.
The net result of this is that all client apps that want to consume the Config Server need a
bootstrap.yml (or an environment variable) with the server address in
If you prefer to use Eureka 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 Eureka server
address, e.g. in eureka.client.serviceUrl.defaultZone . The price for using this option is an
extra network round trip on start up to locate the service registration. The benefit is that the
Config Server can change its co-ordinates, as long as Eureka is a fixed point. The default
service id is "CONFIGSERVER" but you can change that on the client with
spring.cloud.config.discovery.serviceId (and on the server in the usual way for a service,
If you expect that the config server may occasionally be unavailable when your app starts,
you can ask it to keep trying after a failure. First you need to set
spring.cloud.config.failFast=true , and then you need to add spring-retry and spring-
boot-starter-aop to your classpath. The default behaviour is to retry 6 times with an initial
backoff interval of 1000ms and an exponential multiplier of 1.1 for subsequent backoffs. You
can configure these properties (and others) using spring.config.retry.* configuration
properties.
"name" = ${spring.application.name}
"label" = "master"
Security
If you use HTTP Basic security on the server then clients just need to know the password
(and username if it isn’t the default). You can do that via the config server URI, or via
separate username and password properties, e.g.
bootstrap.yml
spring:
cloud:
config:
uri: https://user:[[email protected]](/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection)
or
bootstrap.yml
spring:
cloud:
config:
uri: https://myconfig.mycompany.com
username: user
password: secret
If you deploy your apps on Cloud Foundry then the best way to provide the password is
through service credentials, e.g. in the URI, since then it doesn’t even need to be in a config
file. An example which works locally and for a user-provided service on Cloud Foundry
named "configserver":
bootstrap.yml
spring:
cloud:
config:
uri: ${vcap.services.configserver.credentials.uri:http://user:[[email p
:8888}
If you use another form of security you might need to provide a RestTemplate to the
ConfigServicePropertySourceLocator (e.g. by grabbing it in the bootstrap context and
injecting one).
This project provides Netflix OSS integrations for Spring Boot apps through
autoconfiguration and binding to the Spring Environment and other Spring programming
model idioms. With a few simple annotations you can quickly enable and configure the
common patterns inside your application and build large distributed systems with battle-
tested Netflix components. The patterns provided include Service Discovery (Eureka),
Circuit Breaker (Hystrix), Intelligent Routing (Zuul) and Client Side Load Balancing (Ribbon).
Service Discovery is one of the key tenets of a microservice based architecture. Trying to
hand configure each client or some form of convention can be very difficult to do and can be
very brittle. Eureka is the Netflix Service Discovery Server and Client. The server can be
configured and deployed to be highly available, with each server replicating state about the
registered services to the others.
@Configuration
@ComponentScan
@EnableAutoConfiguration
@EnableEurekaClient
@RestController
public class Application {
@RequestMapping("/")
public String home() {
return "Hello world";
}
(i.e. utterly normal Spring Boot app). In this example we use @EnableEurekaClient explicitly,
but with only Eureka available you could also use @EnableDiscoveryClient . Configuration is
required to locate the Eureka server. Example:
application.yml
eureka:
client:
serviceUrl:
defaultZone: http://localhost:8761/eureka/
where "defaultZone" is a magic string fallback value that provides the service URL for any
client that doesn’t express a preference (i.e. it’s a useful default).
The default application name (service ID), virtual host and non-secure port, taken from the
Environment , are ${spring.application.name} , ${spring.application.name} and
${server.port} respectively.
@EnableEurekaClient makes the app into both a Eureka "instance" (i.e. it registers itself) and
a "client" (i.e. it can query the registry to locate other services). The instance behaviour is
driven by eureka.instance.* configuration keys, but the defaults will be fine if you ensure
that your application has a spring.application.name (this is the default for the Eureka
service ID, or VIP).
application.yml
eureka:
instance:
statusPageUrlPath: ${management.contextPath}/info
healthCheckUrlPath: ${management.contextPath}/health
These links show up in the metadata that is consumers by clients, and used in some
scenarios to decide whether to send requests to your application, so it’s helpful if they are
accurate.
eureka.instance.metadataMap , and this will be accessible in the remote clients, but in general
will not change the behaviour of the client, unless it is made aware of the meaning of the
metadata. There are a couple of special cases described below where Spring Cloud already
assigns meaning to the metadata map.
application.yml
eureka:
instance:
hostname: ${vcap.application.uris[0]}
nonSecurePort: 80
metadataMap:
instanceId: ${vcap.application.instance_id:${spring.application.name}:
Depending on the way the security rules are set up in your Cloudfoundry instance, you might
be able to register and use the IP address of the host VM for direct service-to-service calls.
This feature is not (yet) available on Pivotal Web Services (PWS).
@Bean
@Profile("!default")
public EurekaInstanceConfigBean eurekaInstanceConfig() {
EurekaInstanceConfigBean b = new EurekaInstanceConfigBean();
AmazonInfo info = AmazonInfo.Builder.newBuilder().autoBuild("eureka");
b.setDataCenterInfo(info);
return b;
}
application.yml
eureka:
instance:
metadataMap:
instanceId: ${spring.application.name}:${spring.application.instance_i
With this metadata, and multiple service instances deployed on localhost, the random value
will kick in there to make the instance unique. In Cloudfoundry the
spring.application.instance_id will be populated automatically in a Spring Boot Actuator
e.g.
clients until the instance, the server and the client all have the same metadata in their local
cache (so it could take 3 hearbeats). You can change the period using
eureka.instance.leaseRenewalIntervalInSeconds and this will speed up the process of getting
clients connected to other services. In production it’s probably better to stick with the default
because there are some computations internally in the server that make assumptions about
the lease renewal period.
@SpringBootApplication
@EnableEurekaServer
public class Application {
The server has a home page with a UI, and HTTP API endpoints per the normal Eureka
functionality under /eureka/* .
Eureka background reading: see flux capacitor and google group discussion.
Due to Gradle’s dependency resolution rules and the lack of a parent bom
feature, simply depending on spring-cloud-starter-eureka-server can cause
Tip failures on application startup. To remedy this the Spring dependency
management plugin must be added and the Spring cloud starter parent
bom must be imported like so:
By default every Eureka server is also a Eureka client and requires (at least one) service
URL to locate a peer. If you don’t provide it the service will run and work, but it will shower
your logs with a lot of noise about not being able to register with the peer.
See also below for details of Ribbon support on the client side for Zones and Regions.
Standalone Mode
The combination of the two caches (client and server) and the heartbeats make a
standalone Eureka server fairly resilient to failure, as long as there is some sort of monitor or
elastic runtime keeping it alive (e.g. Cloud Foundry). In standalone mode, you might prefer
to switch off the client side behaviour, so it doesn’t keep trying and failing to reach its peers.
Example:
server:
port: 8761
eureka:
instance:
hostname: localhost
client:
registerWithEureka: false
fetchRegistry: false
serviceUrl:
defaultZone: http://${eureka.instance.hostname}:${server.port}/eureka/
Notice that the serviceUrl is pointing to the same host as the local instance.
Peer Awareness
Eureka can be made even more resilient and available by running multiple instances and
asking them to register with each other. In fact, this is the default behaviour, so all you need
to do to make it work is add a valid serviceUrl to a peer, e.g.
---
spring:
profiles: peer1
eureka:
instance:
hostname: peer1
client:
serviceUrl:
defaultZone: http://peer2/eureka/
---
spring:
profiles: peer2
eureka:
instance:
hostname: peer2
client:
serviceUrl:
defaultZone: http://peer1/eureka/
In this example we have a YAML file that can be used to run the same server on 2 hosts
(peer1 and peer2), by running it in different Spring profiles. You could use this configuration
to test the peer awareness on a single host (there’s not much value in doing that in
production) by manipulating /etc/hosts to resolve the host names. In fact, the
eureka.instance.hostname is not needed if you are running on a machine that knows its own
You can add multiple peers to a system, and as long as they are all connected to each other
by at least one edge, they will synchronize the registrations amongst themselves. If the
peers are physically separated (inside a data centre or between multiple data centres) then
the system can in principle survive split-brain type failures.
Prefer IP Address
In some cases, it is preferable for Eureka to advertise the IP Adresses of services rather
than the hostname. Set eureka.instance.preferIpAddress to true and when the application
registers with eureka, it will use its IP Address rather than its hostname.
Netflix has created a library called Hystrix that implements the circuit breaker pattern. In a
microservice architecture it is common to have multiple layers of service calls.
A service failure in the lower level of services can cause cascading failure all the way up to
the user. When calls to a particular service reach a certain threshold (20 failures in 5
seconds is the default in Hystrix), the circuit opens and the call is not made. In cases of error
and an open circuit a fallback can be provided by the developer.
Having an open circuit stops cascading failures and allows overwhelmed or failing services
time to heal. The fallback can be another Hystrix protected call, static data or a sane empty
value. Fallbacks may be chained so the first fallback makes some other business call which
in turn falls back to static data.
@HystrixCommand(fallbackMethod = "defaultStores")
public Object getStores(Map<String, Object> parameters) {
//do stuff that might fail
}
}</pre>
The @HystrixCommand is provided by a Netflix contrib library called "javanica". Spring Cloud
automatically wraps Spring beans with that annotation in a proxy that is connected to the
Hystrix circuit breaker. The circuit breaker calculates when to open and close the circuit, and
what to do in case of a failure.
To configure the @HystrixCommand you can use the commandProperties attribute with a list of
@HystrixProperty annotations. See here for more details. See the Hystrix wiki for details on
@HystrixCommand(fallbackMethod = "stubMyService",
commandProperties = {
@HystrixProperty(name="execution.isolation.strategy", value="SEMAPHORE")
}
)
...
The same thing applies if you are using @SessionScope or @RequestScope . You will know
when you need to do this because of a runtime exception that says it can’t find the scoped
context.
Health Indicator
The state of the connected circuit breakers are also exposed in the /health endpoint of the
calling application.
{
"hystrix": {
"openCircuitBreakers": [
"StoreIntegration::getStoresByLocationLink"
],
"status": "CIRCUIT_OPEN"
},
"status": "UP"
}
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>
</dependency>
One of the main benefits of Hystrix is the set of metrics it gathers about each
HystrixCommand. The Hystrix Dashboard displays the health of each circuit breaker in an
efficient manner.
To run the Hystrix Dashboard annotate your Spring Boot main class with
@EnableHystrixDashboard . You then visit /hystrix and point the dashboard to an individual
Turbine
Looking at an individual instances Hystrix data is not very useful in terms of the overall
health of the system. Turbine is an application that aggregates all of the relevant
/hystrix.stream endpoints into a combined /turbine.stream for use in the Hystrix
Dashboard. Individual instances are located via Eureka. Running Turbine is as simple as
annotating your main class with the @EnableTurbine annotation (e.g. using spring-cloud-
starter-turbine to set up the classpath). All of the documented configuration properties from
the Turbine 1 wiki) apply. The only difference is that the turbine.instanceUrlSuffix does not
need the port prepended as this is handled automatically unless
turbine.instanceInsertPort=false .
The configuration key turbine.appConfig is a list of eureka serviceIds that turbine will use to
lookup instances. The turbine stream is then used in the Hystrix dashboard using a url that
looks like: [http://my.turbine.sever:8080/turbine.stream?cluster=<CLUSTERNAME>]
(http://my.turbine.sever:8080/turbine.stream?cluster=<CLUSTERNAME>"); (the cluster
parameter can be omitted if the name is "default"). The cluster parameter must match an
entry in turbine.aggregator.clusterConfig . Values returned from eureka are uppercase,
thus we expect this example to work if there is an app registered with Eureka called
"customers":
turbine:
aggregator:
clusterConfig: CUSTOMERS
appConfig: customers
appName , which means that the Eureka serviceId ends up as the cluster key (i.e. the
turbine:
aggregator:
clusterConfig: SYSTEM,USER
appConfig: customers,stores,ui,admin
clusterNameExpression: metadata['cluster']
In this case, the cluster name from 4 services is pulled from their metadata map, and is
expected to have values that include "SYSTEM" and "USER".
To use the "default" cluster for all apps you need a string literal expression (with single
quotes):
turbine:
appConfig: customers,stores
clusterNameExpression: 'default'
Spring Cloud provides a spring-cloud-starter-turbine that has all the dependencies you
need to get a Turbine server running. Just create a Spring Boot application and annotate it
with @EnableTurbine .
Turbine AMQP
In some environments (e.g. in a PaaS setting), the classic Turbine model of pulling metrics
from all the distributed Hystrix commands doesn’t work. In that case you might want to have
your Hystrix commands push metrics to Turbine, and Spring Cloud enables that with AMQP
messaging. All you need to do on the client is add a dependency to spring-cloud-netflix-
hystrix-amqp and make sure there is a Rabbit broker available (see Spring Boot
documentation for details on how to configure the client credentials, but it should work out of
the box for a local broker or in Cloud Foundry).
On the server side Just create a Spring Boot application and annotate it with
@EnableTurbineAmqp and by default it will come up on port 8989 (point your Hystrix
dashboard to that port, any path). You can customize the port using either server.port or
turbine.amqp.port . If you have spring-boot-starter-web and spring-boot-starter-
actuator on the classpath as well, then you can open up the Actuator endpoints on a
You can then point the Hystrix Dashboard to the Turbine AMQP Server instead of individual
Hystrix streams. If Turbine AMQP is running on port 8989 on myhost, then put
[http://myhost:8989](http://myhost:8989) in the stream input field in the Hystrix
Dashboard. Circuits will be prefixed by their respective serviceId, followed by a dot, then the
circuit name.
If you are using AMQP there needs to be a ConnectionFactory (from Spring Rabbit) in the
application context. If there is a single ConnectionFactory it will be used, or if there is a one
qualified as @HystrixConnectionFactory (on the client) and @TurbineConnectionFactory (on
the server) it will be preferred over others, otherwise the @Primary one will be used. If there
are multiple unqualified connection factories there will be an error.
Note that Spring Boot (as of 1.2.2) creates a ConnectionFactory that is not @Primary , so if
you want to use one connection factory for the bus and another for business messages, you
need to create both, and annotate them @*ConnectionFactory and @Primary respectively.
Ribbon is a client side load balancer which gives you a lot of control over the behaviour of
HTTP and TCP clients. Feign already uses Ribbon, so if you are using @FeignClient then
this section also applies.
A central concept in Ribbon is that of the named client. Each load balancer is part of an
ensemble of components that work together to contact a remote server on demand, and the
ensemble has a name that you give it as an application developer (e.g. using the
@FeignClient annotation). Spring Cloud creates a new ensemble as an
that you can use Spring Boot configuration files. The native options can be inspected as
static fields in CommonClientConfigKey (part of ribbon-core).
Spring Cloud also lets you take full control of the client by declaring additional configuration
(on top of the RibbonClientConfiguration ) using @RibbonClient . Example:
@Configuration
@RibbonClient(name = "foo", configuration = FooConfiguration.class)
public class TestConfiguration {
}
Spring Cloud Netflix provides the following beans by default for ribbon ( BeanType
beanName: ClassName ):
Creating a bean of one of those type and placing it in a @RibbonClient configuration (such
as FooConfiguration above) allows you to override each one of the beans described.
Example:
@Configuration
public class FooConfiguration {
@Bean
public IPing ribbonPing(IClientConfig config) {
return new PingUrl();
}
}
to the load balancer without using AWS AMI metadata (which is what Netflix relies on). By
default the server list will be constructed with "zone" information as provided in the instance
metadata (so on the client set eureka.instance.metadataMap.zone ), and if that is missing it
can use the domain name from the server hostname as a proxy for zone (if the flag
approximateZoneFromDomain is set). Once the zone information is available it can be used in
a ServerListFilter (by default it will be used to locate a server in the same zone as the
client because the default is a ZonePreferenceServerListFilter ).
use (and not even on the classpath). The Ribbon client defaults to a configured server list,
and you can supply the configuration like this
application.yml
stores:
ribbon:
listOfServers: example.com,google.com
application.yml
ribbon:
eureka:
enabled: false
Feign is a declarative web service client. It makes writing web service clients easier. To use
Feign create an interface and annotate it. It has pluggable annotation support including
Feign annotations and JAX-RS annotations. Feign also supports pluggable encoders and
decoders. Spring Cloud adds support for Spring MVC annotations and for using the same
HttpMessageConverters used by default in Spring Web. Spring Cloud integrates Ribbon and
@Configuration
@ComponentScan
@EnableAutoConfiguration
@EnableEurekaClient
@EnableFeignClients
public class Application {
StoreClient.java
@FeignClient("stores")
public interface StoreClient {
@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET, value = "/stores")
List<Store> getStores();
In the @FeignClient annotation the String value ("stores" above) is an arbitrary client name,
which is used to create a Ribbon load balancer (see below for details of Ribbon support).
You can also specify a URL using the url attribute (absolute value or just a hostname).
The Ribbon client above will want to discover the physical addresses for the "stores" service.
If your application is a Eureka client then it will resolve the service in the Eureka service
registry. If you don’t want to use Eureka, you can simply configure a list of servers in your
external configuration (see above for example).
Archaius is the Netflix client side configuration library. It is the library used by all of the Netflix
OSS components for configuration. Archaius is an extension of the Apache Commons
Configuration project. It allows updates to configuration by either polling a source for
changes or for a source to push changes to the client. Archaius uses
Dynamic<Type>Property classes as handles to properties.
Archaius Example
class ArchaiusTest {
DynamicStringProperty myprop = DynamicPropertyFactory
.getInstance()
.getStringProperty("my.prop");
void doSomething() {
OtherClass.someMethod(myprop.get());
}
}
Archaius has its own set of configuration files and loading priorities. Spring applications
should generally not use Archaius directly., but the need to configure the Netflix tools
natively remains. Spring Cloud has a Spring Environment Bridge so Archaius can read
properties from the Spring Environment. This allows Spring Boot projects to use the normal
configuration toolchain, while allowing them to configure the Netflix tools, for the most part,
as documented.
Authentication
Insights
Stress Testing
Canary Testing
Dynamic Routing
Service Migration
Load Shedding
Security
Zuul’s rule engine allows rules and filters to be written in essentially any JVM language, with
built in support for Java and Groovy.
To enable it, annotate a Spring Boot main class with @EnableZuulProxy , and this forwards
local calls to the appropriate service. By convention, a service with the Eureka ID "users",
will receive requests from the proxy located at /users (with the prefix stripped). The proxy
uses Ribbon to locate an instance to forward to via Eureka, and all requests are executed in
a hystrix command, so failures will show up in Hystrix metrics, and once the circuit is open
the proxy will not try to contact the service.
application.yml
zuul:
ignoredServices: *
routes:
users: /myusers/**
To augment or change the proxy routes, you can add external configuration like the
following:
application.yml
zuul:
routes:
users: /myusers/**
This means that http calls to "/myusers" get forwarded to the "users" service (for example
"/myusers/101" is forwarded to "/101").
To get more fine-grained control over a route you can specify the path and the serviceId
independently:
application.yml
zuul:
routes:
users:
path: /myusers/**
serviceId: users_service
This means that http calls to "/myusers" get forwarded to the "users_service" service. The
route has to have a "path" which can be specified as an ant-style pattern, so "/myusers/"
only matches one level, but "/myusers/*" matches hierarchically.
The location of the backend can be specified as either a "serviceId" (for a Eureka service) or
a "url" (for a physical location), e.g.
application.yml
zuul:
routes:
users:
path: /myusers/**
url: http://example.com/users_service
These simple url-routes doesn’t get executed as HystrixCommand nor can you loadbalance
multiple url with Ribbon. To achieve this specify a service-route and configure a Ribbon
client for the serviceId (this currently requires disabling Eureka support in Ribbon: see above
for more information), e.g.
application.yml
zuul:
routes:
users:
path: /myusers/**
serviceId: users
ribbon:
eureka:
enabled: false
users:
ribbon:
listOfServers: example.com,google.com
To add a prefix to all mappings, set zuul.prefix to a value, such as /api . The proxy prefix
is stripped from the request before the request is forwarded by default (switch this behaviour
off with zuul.stripPrefix=false ). You can also switch off the stripping of the service-specific
prefix from individual routes, e.g.
application.yml
zuul:
routes:
users:
path: /myusers/**
stripPrefix: false
The zuul.routes entries actually bind to an object of type ProxyRouteLocator . If you look at
the properties of that object you will see that it also has a "retryable" flag. Set that flag to
"true" to have the Ribbon client automatically retry failed requests (and if you need to you
can modify the parameters of the retry operations using the Ribbon client configuration).
The X-Forwarded-Host header added to the forwarded requests by default. To turn it off set
zuul.addProxyHeaders = false . The prefix path is stripped by default, and the request to the
An application with the @EnableZuulProxy could act as a standalone server if you set a
default route ("/"), for example zuul.route.home: / would route all traffic (i.e. "/**") to the
"home" service.
The servlet path is externalized via zuul.servletPath . Extremely large files will also require
elevated timeout settings if the proxy route takes you through a Ribbon load balancer, e.g.
application.yml
hystrix.command.default.execution.isolation.thread.timeoutInMilliseconds: 60000
ribbon:
ConnectTimeout: 3000
ReadTimeout: 60000
Note that for streaming to work with large files, you need to use chunked encoding in the
request (which some browsers do not do by default). E.g. on the command line:
" localhost:9999/zuul/simple/file
You can also run a Zuul server without the proxying, or switch on parts of the proxying
platform selectively, if you use @EnableZuulServer (instead of @EnableZuulProxy ). Any
beans that you add to the application of type ZuulFilter will be installed automatically, as
they are with @EnableZuulProxy , but without any of the proxy filters being added
automatically.
In this case the routes into the Zuul server are still specified by configuring "zuul.routes.*",
but there is no service discovery and no proxying, so the "serviceId" and "url" settings are
ignored. For example:
application.yml
zuul:
routes:
api: /api/**
zuul.SendResponseFilter.post.disable=true .
To enable the Sidecar, create a Spring Boot application with @EnableSidecar . This
annotation includes @EnableCircuitBreaker , @EnableDiscoveryClient , and
@EnableZuulProxy . Run the resulting application on the same host as the non-jvm
application.
health-uri-document
{
"status":"UP"
}
application.yml
server:
port: 5678
spring:
application:
name: sidecar
sidecar:
port: 8000
health-uri: http://localhost:8000/health.json
/hosts/customers
[
{
"host": "myhost",
"port": 9000,
"uri": "http://myhost:9000",
"serviceId": "CUSTOMERS",
"secure": false
},
{
"host": "myhost2",
"port": 9000,
"uri": "http://myhost2:9000",
"serviceId": "CUSTOMERS",
"secure": false
}
]
The Zuul proxy automatically adds routes for each service known in eureka to
/<serviceId> , so the customers service is available at /customers . The Non-jvm app
If the Config Server is registered with Eureka, non-jvm application can access it via the Zuul
proxy. If the serviceId of the ConfigServer is configserver and the Sidecar is on port 5678,
then it can be accessed at http://localhost:5678/configserver
Non-jvm app can take advantage of the Config Server’s ability to return YAML documents.
For example, a call to http://sidecar.local.spring.io:5678/configserver/default-master.yml
might result in a YAML document like the following
eureka:
client:
serviceUrl:
defaultZone: http://localhost:8761/eureka/
password: password
info:
description: Spring Cloud Samples
url: https://github.com/spring-cloud-samples
Spring Cloud Bus links nodes of a distributed system with a lightweight message broker.
This can then be used to broadcast state changes (e.g. configuration changes) or other
management instructions. A key idea is that the Bus is like a distributed Actuator for a Spring
Boot application that is scaled out, but it can also be used as a communication channel
between apps. The only implementation currently is with an AMQP broker as the transport,
but the same basic feature set (and some more depending on the transport) is on the
roadmap for other transports.
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Spring Cloud Bus works by adding Spring Boot autconfiguration if it detects itself on the
classpath. All you need to do to enable the bus is to add spring-cloud-starter-bus-amqp to
your dependency management and Spring Cloud takes care of the rest. Make sure
RabbitMQ is available and configured to provide a ConnectionFactory : running on localhost
you shouldn’t have to do anything, but if you are running remotely use Spring Cloud
Connectors, or Spring Boot conventions to define the broker credentials, e.g.
application.yml
spring:
rabbitmq:
host: mybroker.com
port: 5672
username: user
password: secret
The bus currently supports sending messages to all nodes listening or all nodes for a
particular service (as defined by Eureka). More selector criteria will be added in the future
(ie. only service X nodes in data center Y, etc…). The http endpoints are under the /bus/*
actuator namespace. There are currently two implemented. The first, /bus/env , sends
key/values pairs to update each nodes Spring Environment. The second, /bus/refresh , will
reload each application’s configuration, just as if they had all been pinged on their /refresh
endpoint.
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The "destination" parameter is used in a Spring PathMatcher (with the path separator as a
colon : ) to determine if an instance will process the message. Using the example from
above, "/bus/refresh?destination=customers:**" will target all instances of the "customers"
service regardless of the profiles and ports set as the ApplicationContext ID.
The bus tries to eliminate processing an event twice, once from the original
ApplicationEvent and once from the queue. To do this, it checks the sending application
context id againts the current application context id. If multiple instances of a service have
the same application context id, events will not be processed. Running on a local machine,
each service will be on a different port and that will be part of the application context id.
Cloud Foundry supplies an index to differentiate. To ensure that the application context id is
the unique, set spring.application.index to something unique for each instance of a
service. For example, in lattice, set spring.application.index=${INSTANCE_INDEX} in
application.properties (or bootstrap.properties if using configserver).
If you are using AMQP there needs to be a ConnectionFactory (from Spring Rabbit) in the
application context. If there is a single ConnectionFactory it will be used, or if there is a one
qualified as @BusConnectionFactory it will be preferred over others, otherwise the @Primary
one will be used. If there are multiple unqualified connection factories there will be an error.
Note that Spring Boot (as of 1.2.2) creates a ConnectionFactory that is not @Primary , so if
you want to use one connection factory for the bus and another for business messages, you
need to create both, and annotate them @BusConnectionFactory and @Primary respectively.
Spring Boot CLI provides Spring Boot command line features for Spring Cloud. You can
write Groovy scripts to run Spring Cloud component applications (e.g.
@EnableEurekaServer ). You can also easily do things like encryption and decryption to
| Note | Spring Cloud is released under the non-restrictive Apache 2.0 license. If you would
like to contribute to this section of the documentation or if you find an error, please find the
source code and issue trackers in the project at
{githubmaster}/docs/src/main/asciidoc[github]. | | --- | --- |
To install, make sure you have Spring Boot CLI (1.2.0 or better):
$ spring version
Spring CLI v1.2.3.RELEASE
$ mvn install
$ spring install org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-cli:1.0.2.RELEASE
| Important | Prerequisites: to use the encryption and decryption features you need the full-
strength JCE installed in your JVM (it’s not there by default). You can download the "Java
Cryptography Extension (JCE) Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy Files" from Oracle, and
follow instructions for installation (essentially replace the 2 policy files in the JRE lib/security
directory with the ones that you downloaded). | | --- | --- |
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Spring Cloud CLI has support for most of the Spring Cloud declarative features, such as the
@Enable* class of annotations. For example, here is a fully functional Eureka server
app.groovy
@EnableEurekaServer
class Eureka {}
which you can run from the command line like this
To include additional dependencies, often it suffices just to add the appropriate feature-
enabling annotation, e.g. @EnableConfigServer , @EnableOAuth2Sso or @EnableEurekaClient .
To manually include a dependency you can use a @Grab with the special "Spring Boot"
short style artifact co-ordinates, i.e. with just the artifact ID (no need for group or version
information), e.g. to set up a client app to listen on AMQP for management events from the
Spring CLoud Bus:
app.groovy
@Grab('spring-cloud-starter-bus-amqp')
@RestController
class Service {
@RequestMapping('/')
def home() { [message: 'Hello'] }
}
The Spring Cloud CLI comes with an "encrypt" and a "decrypt" command. Both accept
arguments in the same form with a key specified as a mandatory "--key", e.g.
To use a key in a file (e.g. an RSA public key for encyption) prepend the key value with "@"
and provide the file path, e.g.
Spring Cloud Security offers a set of primitives for building secure applications and services
with minimum fuss. A declarative model which can be heavily configured externally (or
centrally) lends itself to the implementation of large systems of co-operating, remote
components, usually with a central indentity management service. It is also extremely easy
to use in a service platform like Cloud Foundry. Building on Spring Boot and Spring Security
OAuth2 we can quickly create systems that implement common patterns like single sign on,
token relay and token exchange.
| Note | Spring Cloud is released under the non-restrictive Apache 2.0 license. If you would
like to contribute to this section of the documentation or if you find an error, please find the
source code and issue trackers in the project at {githubmaster}/src/main/asciidoc[github]. | | -
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app.groovy
@Grab('spring-boot-starter-security')
@Controller
class Application {
@RequestMapping('/')
String home() {
'Hello World'
}
You can run it with spring run app.groovy and watch the logs for the password (username
is "user"). So far this is just the default for a Spring Boot app.
app.groovy
@Controller
@EnableOAuth2Sso
class Application {
@RequestMapping('/')
String home() {
'Hello World'
}
Spot the difference? This app will actually behave exactly the same as the previous one,
because it doesn’t know it’s OAuth2 credentals yet.
You can register an app in github quite easily, so try that if you want a production app on
your own domain. If you are happy to test on localhost:8080, then set up these properties in
your application configuration:
application.yml
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spring:
oauth2:
client:
clientId: bd1c0a783ccdd1c9b9e4
clientSecret: 1a9030fbca47a5b2c28e92f19050bb77824b5ad1
accessTokenUri: https://github.com/login/oauth/access_token
userAuthorizationUri: https://github.com/login/oauth/authorize
clientAuthenticationScheme: form
resource:
userInfoUri: https://api.github.com/user
preferTokenInfo: false
run the app above and it will redirect to github for authorization. If you are already signed
into github you won’t even notice that it has authenticated. These credentials will only work if
your app is running on port 8080.
To limit the scope that the client asks for when it obtains an access token you can set
spring.oauth2.client.scope (comma separated or an array in YAML). By default the scope
is empty and it is up to to Authorization Server to decide what the defaults should be, usually
depending on the settings in the client registration that it holds.
The examples above are all Groovy scripts. If you want to write the same
Note code in Java (or Groovy) you need to add Spring Security OAuth2 to the
classpath (e.g. see the sample here).
app.groovy
@Grab('spring-cloud-starter-security')
@RestController
@EnableOAuth2Resource
class Application {
@RequestMapping('/')
def home() {
[message: 'Hello World']
}
and
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application.yml
spring:
oauth2:
resource:
userInfoUri: https://api.github.com/user
preferTokenInfo: false
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Single Sign On
An app will activate @EnableOAuth2Sso if you bind provide the following properties in the
Environment :
"https://uaa.run.pivotal.io/userinfo" on PWS), or
"https://uaa.run.pivotal.io/check_token" on PWS).
If you specify both the userInfoUri and the tokenInfoUri then you can set a flag to
say that one is preferred over the other ( preferTokenInfo=true is the default). Or
verification key. The verification key value is either a symmetric secret or PEM-encoded
RSA public key. If you don’t have the key and it’s public you can provide a URI where it
can be downloaded (as a JSON object with a "value" field) with
spring.oauth2.resource.jwt.keyUri . E.g. on PWS:
$ curl https://uaa.run.pivotal.io/token_key
{"alg":"SHA256withRSA","value":"-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----\nMIIBI...\n---
You can set the preferred scope (as a comma-separated list or YAML array) in
spring.oauth2.client.scope . It defaults to empty, in which case most Authorization Servers
will ask the user for approval for the maximum allowed scope for the client.
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created but before it is initialized. The rest template that is being customized here is only
used internally to carry out authentication (in the SSO or Resource Server use cases).
To set an RSA key value in YAML use ") and remember to indent the key
Tip the "pipe" continuation marker to value (it’s a standard YAML
split it over multiple lines (" language feature). Example:
set the request matchers for the OAuth2 filter, and one with the full HttpSecurity builder (so
you can set up all sorts of behaviour, but the main application is to control access rules).
The default login path, i.e. the one that triggers the redirect to the OAuth2 Authorization
Server, is "/login". It will always be added to the matching patterns for the OAuth2 SSO,
even if you have OAuth2SsoConfigurer beans as well. The default logout path is "/logout"
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and it gets similar treatment, as does the "home" page (which is the logout success page,
defaults to "/"). Those paths can be overriden by setting spring.oauth2.sso.*'
( loginPath , logoutPath and home.path`).
For example if you want the resources under "/ui/**" to be protected with OAuth2:
@Configuration
@EnableOAuth2Sso
@EnableAutoConfiguration
protected static class TestConfiguration extends OAuth2SsoConfigurerAdapter {
@Override
public void match(RequestMatchers matchers) {
matchers.antMatchers("/ui/**");
}
}
In this case the rest of the application will default to the normal Spring Boot access control
(Basic authentication, or whatever custom filters you put in place).
spring.oauth2.sso.filterOrder . If you do that and the value is less than the default, then
you will need to consider setting the access rules for the Actuator, since they will become
accessible to all authenticated users who sign on with the external provider. One way to do
that would be to set management.contextPath=/admin (for instance) and use an
OAuth2SsoConfigurer to set the access rules, e.g.
@Configuration
@EnableOAuth2Sso
@EnableAutoConfiguration
protected static class TestConfiguration extends OAuth2SsoConfigurerAdapter {
@Override
public void configure(HttpSecurity http) {
http.authorizeRequests()
.antMatchers("/admin/**").role("ADMIN")
.anyRequest().authenticated();
}
}
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Resource Server
The @EnableOAuth2Resource annotation will protect your API endpoints if you have the same
environment settings as the SSO client, except that it doesn’t need a tokenUri or
authorizationUri , and it also doesn’t need a clientId and clientSecret if it isn’t using
By default all your endpoints are protected (i.e. "/") but you can pick and choose by
adding a ResourceServerConfigurerAdapter (standard Spring OAuth feature), e.g. to
protect only the "/api/" resources
Application.java
@RestController
@EnableOAuth2Resource
class Application extends ResourceServerConfigurerAdapter {
@Override
public void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
http.requestMatchers()
.antMatchers("/api/**")
.and()
.authorizeRequests()
.anyRequest().authenticated();
}
@RequestMapping("/api")
public String home() {
return "Hello World";
}
providers might support JWT tokens with different contents, so Spring OAuth2 has an
abstraction for converting the token into security domain objects ( AccessTokenConverter ).
You can modify the default behaviour easily by providing a @Bean of type
JwtAccessTokenConverterConfigurer , e.g.
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@Component
public class JwtCustomization extends DefaultAccessTokenConverter implements
JwtAccessTokenConverterConfigurer {
@Override
public void configure(JwtAccessTokenConverter converter) {
converter.setAccessTokenConverter(this);
}
Token Relay
A Token Relay is where an OAuth2 consumer acts as a Client and forwards the incoming
token to outgoing resource requests. The consumer can be a pure Client (like an SSO
application) or a Resource Server.
app.groovy
@Controller
@EnableOAuth2Sso
@EnableZuulProxy
class Application {
and it will (in addition to loggin the user in and grabbing a token) pass the authentication
token downstream to the /proxy/* services. If those services are implemented with
@EnableOAuth2Resource then they will get a valid token in the correct header.
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{github}/tree/master/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/security/oauth2/proxy/OAuth2
TokenRelayFilter.java[filter] just extracts an access token from the currently authenticated
user, and puts it in a request header for the downstream requests.
that is provided for @Autowired users by Spring Cloud (it is declared as @Primary ) will also
forward tokens. If you don’t want to forward tokens (and that is a valid choice, since you
might want to act as yourself, rather than the client that sent you the token), then you only
need to create your own OAuth2RestOperations instead of autowiring the default one. Here’s
a basic example showing the use of the autowired rest template ("foo.com" is a Resource
Server accepting the same tokens as the surrounding app):
MyController.java
@Autowired
private OAuth2RestOperations restTemplate;
@RequestMapping("/relay")
public String relay() {
ResponseEntity<String> response =
restTemplate.getForEntity("https://foo.com/bar", String.class);
return "Success! (" + response.getBody() + ")";
}
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application.yml
proxy:
auth:
routes:
customers: oauth2
stores: passthru
recommendations: none
In this example the "customers" service gets an OAuth2 token relay, the "stores" service
gets a passthrough (the authorization header is just passed downstream), and the
"recommendations" service has its authorization header removed. The default behaviour is
to do a token relay if there is a token available, and passthru otherwise.
See
{github}/tree/master/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/security/oauth2/proxy/ProxyAu
thenticationProperties[ ProxyAuthenticationProperties] for full details.