Master Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud - Step 31 – Setting Up Zuul API Gateway

The video tutorial explains the concept of API gateways, focusing on Netflix's implementation called Zuul. It outlines three main steps to set up a Zuul server: creating a component, deciding on request interception actions, and ensuring important requests pass through the gateway. The tutorial provides a detailed walkthrough of setting up a Zuul API Gateway server using Spring Boot, integrating it with Eureka for service discovery, and configuring application properties. The video concludes with a note on defining request interception actions in the next step.

What is the purpose of the Zuul API Gateway when it intercepts a request?

What annotations are necessary to enable the Zuul proxy and register with the name server?