Master Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud - Step 07 – Connect Limits Service to Spring Cloud Config Server

This video tutorial explains how to connect a limit service to a Spring Cloud Config server. It covers the prerequisites, such as selecting the Spring Cloud starter config in the pom.xml file, and configuring the URL of the cloud config server in the application.properties file. The tutorial also discusses the importance of setting the correct application name and how to retrieve configuration from the server. It highlights the priority of configurations from the Git repository over local properties and provides troubleshooting tips for common issues.

What is a prerequisite for connecting the limit service to the Spring Cloud Config Server?

• Setting up a database connection

• Configuring the server port to 8080

• Using Bootstrap properties file

• Including Spring Cloud Starter Config in the project

How can you specify the URL of the Cloud Config Server in the application properties?

• By using cloud.server.uri

• By using spring.config.url

• By using spring.cloud.config.uri

• By using server.config.url

What happens if the connection to the config server is optional and fails?

• The application will throw an error and stop

• The application will start with default configurations

• The application will retry the connection indefinitely

• The application will not start

Which configuration has higher priority, the one in the application properties or the one in the Git repository?

• Application properties

• Git repository

• Both have equal priority

• It depends on the server settings

What should you check if the limit microservice is not connecting to the Spring Cloud Config Server?

• The application name matches the properties file name

• The server port number

• The network firewall settings

• The database connection settings