Using Spring boot, we can very easily run up a Eureka server.

In IntelliJ create a new project using the Spring Initializr, simply select the Eureka Server dependency.

Once the application is create, I found I needed to add the @EnableEurekaServer annotation to the application class, so here’s my EurekatesApplication.java

package com.putridparrot.eurekatest;

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
import org.springframework.cloud.netflix.eureka.server.EnableEurekaServer;

@EnableEurekaServer
@SpringBootApplication
public class EurekatestApplication {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(EurekatestApplication.class, args);
    }
}

Next we need to add the following properties to the resources/application.properties

server.port=8761

eureka.client.register-with-eureka=false
eureka.client.fetch-registry=false

logging.level.com.netflix.eureka=OFF
logging.level.com.netflix.discovery=OFF

Now when you run the application and view the web page http://localhost:8761/, you should see the Spring Eureka web page. Running http://localhost:8761/eureka/apps from your preferred browser will list any applications registered with the server.

At this point we’ve not application registered with the server, so let’s add a .NET server in the next post.