Master Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud - Step 14 – Set Up Currency Exchange and Conversion Microservices

The video tutorial covers running microservices using Kubernetes, focusing on currency exchange and conversion services. It guides viewers through downloading projects from GitHub, importing them into Eclipse, and running them locally. Key changes in POM and XML files are discussed, including the removal of Spring Cloud components in favor of Kubernetes features. Modifications in controllers and application properties are highlighted, emphasizing logging and versioning. The tutorial concludes with changes in the currency exchange proxy to enable Kubernetes service discovery.

What is the first step to set up the currency exchange and conversion services?

• Install Kubernetes on your local machine.

• Download the zip file from the GitHub repository.

• Clone the repository using Git.

• Create a new project in Eclipse.

Which Spring Cloud components were removed from the microservices?

• Spring Cloud Config and Spring Cloud Netflix Eureka

• Spring Cloud Gateway and Spring Cloud Zipkin

• Spring Cloud Netflix Eureka and Spring Cloud Gateway

• Spring Cloud Config and Spring Cloud Gateway

What versioning change was made in the pom.xml files?

• Downgraded to 0.0.8-SNAPSHOT

• Updated to 0.0.11-SNAPSHOT

• Updated to 1.0.0-RELEASE

• Downgraded to 0.0.9-SNAPSHOT

What is the purpose of adding a log in the currency conversion controller?

• To log the response time

• To identify which method is being called

• To track the number of requests

• To monitor the memory usage

What property was added to the currency exchange controller for Kubernetes?

• Host name

• Service name

• Port number

• Environment type

Why was the health information explicitly enabled in the application properties?

• To improve application performance

• To ensure compatibility with older Spring Boot versions

• To allow Kubernetes to check application health

• To enable detailed logging

What is the role of the environment variable in the currency exchange proxy?

• To set the application port

• To define the database connection

• To configure the logging level

• To specify the service host