4. Spring Cloud Zookeeper and Service Registry

Spring Cloud Zookeeper implements the ServiceRegistry interface allowing developers to register arbitrary service in a programmatic way.

The ServiceInstanceRegistration class offers a builder() method to create a Registration object that can be used by the ServiceRegistry.

@Autowired
private ZookeeperServiceRegistry serviceRegistry;

public void registerThings() {
    ZookeeperRegistration registration = ServiceInstanceRegistration.builder()
            .defaultUriSpec()
            .address("anyUrl")
            .port(10)
            .name("/a/b/c/d/anotherservice")
            .build();
    this.serviceRegistry.register(registration);
}

4.1 Instance Status

Netflix Eureka supports having instances registered with the server that are OUT_OF_SERVICE and not returned as active service instances. This is very useful for behaviors such as blue/green deployments. The Curator Service Discovery recipe does not support this behavior. Taking advantage of the flexible payload has let Spring Cloud Zookeeper implement OUT_OF_SERVICE by updating some specific metadata and then filtering on that metadata in the Ribbon ZookeeperServerList. The ZookeeperServerList filters out all non-null instance statuses that do not equal UP. If the instance status field is empty, it is considered UP for backwards compatibility. To change the status of an instance POST OUT_OF_SERVICE to the ServiceRegistry instance status actuator endpoint.

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$ echo -n OUT_OF_SERVICE | http POST http://localhost:8081/service-registry/instance-status
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NOTE: The above example uses the `http` command from https://httpie.org