Master Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud - Step 19 – Understand Naming Server and Setting Up Eureka Naming

The video tutorial explains the challenges of hardcoding URLs in microservices and introduces the concept of a service registry or naming server to dynamically manage service instances. It provides a step-by-step guide to setting up a naming server using Spring Cloud's Eureka, including configuration and launch processes.

How does the currency conversion microservice discover the addresses of the currency exchange microservice?

What is the importance of setting the application name in the application properties for the naming server?

What configurations are necessary to prevent the Eureka server from registering with itself?