Introduction to spring cloud platform

Spring Cloud provides tools for developers to quickly build some of the common patterns in distributed systems (e.g. configuration management, service discovery, circuit breakers, intelligent routing, micro-proxy, control bus, one-time tokens, global locks, leadership election, distributed sessions, cluster state). Coordination of distributed systems leads to boiler plate patterns, and using Spring Cloud developers can quickly stand up services and applications that implement those patterns. They will work well in any distributed environment, including the developer's own laptop, bare metal data centres, and managed platforms such as Cloud Foundry.

Spring cloud is based on Netflix OSS components. It integrates the Netflix components in the spring development environment using auto configuration and convention over configuration similar to the way Spring Boot works.

Operations Component	Netflix, Spring, ELK
Service Discovery server	Netflix Eureka
Dynamic Routing and Load balancer	Netflix Ribbon
Circuit Breaker	Netflix Hystrix
Monitoring	Hystrix dashboard and Turbine
Edge Server	Netflix Zuul
Central Configuration server	Spring cloud config server
OAuth 2.0 protected API’s	Spring Cloud + Spring Security OAuth2
Centralized log analyses	Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana (ELK)