Programmers Guide

Integration with Eureka

Eureka provides service discovery functionality and can be integrated with ribbon to provide dynamic list of servers. To use Eureka with ribbon, follow these steps:

• Include ribbon-eureka in your dependency
• (Done by default) Enable the load balancer for the client and configure the load balancer to be DynamicServerListLoadBalancer or its sub class. This is true by default.
• Configure the ServerList to be com.netflix.niws.loadbalancer.DiscoveryEnabledNIWSServerList
• Configure the server refresh rate. (optional, default is 30 seconds)

Here is an example

myclient.ribbon.NIWSServerListClassName=com.netflix.niws.loadbalancer.DiscoveryEnabledNIWSServerList

# refresh every minute 
myclient.ribbon.ServerListRefreshInterval=60000

In addition, your need to have proper configuration files for Eureka client. See here.