Combining SpringBoot, Zuul and Eureka but bind Services to Localhost

Question

I have set up Zuul for routing and Eureka for service discovery, which works fine. Before setting up Eureka, I used server.address=127.0.0.1 to bind my actual service to localhost so that they could only be accessed from within the Api gateway.

When combining Zuul and Eureka, server.address=127.0.0.1 does not work anymore. I cannot access my actual REST endpoints, neither from within my network nor from the outside.

application.properties of my Eureka service discovery:

spring.application.name=service-discovery
server.port=8761
eureka.client.registerWithEureka=false
eureka.client.fetchRegistry=false

application.properties of my Zuul API gateway:

spring.application.name=api-gateway
zuul.prefix=/api
server.port=8080

ribbon.eureka.enabled=true
eureka.client.serviceUrl.defaultZone=http://localhost:8761/eureka/

zuul.routes.library.path=/library/**
zuul.routes.library.serviceId=library

application.properties of my actual REST service:

spring.application.name=library
server.servlet.context-path=/library
server.port=8090
server.address=127.0.0.1

ribbon.eureka.enabled=true
eureka.client.serviceUrl.defaultZone=http://localhost:8761/eureka/

When I remove server.address=127.0.0.1 from the REST service's properties file, I can of course access the resource - But also from without localhost, which is not what I want.

So what I try to achieve is that my little microservices can only be accessed from within localhost (after the request has passed the Zuul API gateway). Furthermore I want to use Eureka for service discovery and for having the chance to provide second instances of serives.

pixelstuermer pixelstuermer · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-19T10:58:54

Registering the actual microservices with eureka.instance.hostname=localhost or eureka.instance.ip-address=127.0.0.1 to the Eureka server, combined with a binding of the microservice to localhost (server.address=127.0.0.1) did the job.

These are the application.properties files:

application.properties of my Eureka service discovery:

spring.application.name=service-discovery
server.port=8761
server.address=127.0.0.1
eureka.client.registerWithEureka=false
eureka.client.fetchRegistry=false

application.properties of my Zuul API gateway:

spring.application.name=api-gateway
zuul.prefix=/api
server.port=8080
ribbon.eureka.enabled=true
eureka.client.registerWithEureka=false
zuul.routes.library.path=/library/**
zuul.routes.library.serviceId=library
zuul.routes.library.stripPrefix=false

application.properties of my actual REST service:

spring.application.name=library
server.servlet.context-path=/library
server.port=8090
server.address=127.0.0.1
ribbon.eureka.enabled=true
eureka.client.registerWithEureka=true
eureka.instance.hostname=localhost
eureka.instance.ip-address=127.0.0.1

The "library" microservice is now only available from localhost but still registered at Eureka and behind the Zuul API gateway.

Combining SpringBoot, Zuul and Eureka but bind Services to Localhost

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