In this chapter, we discussed cloud-native application patterns and problems due to the cloud-native architecture. We have also discussed the microservices architecture and learned that it breaks monolithic applications into separate pieces of the application to focus on the bounded context. Spring Cloud addresses and provides solutions for cloud-native problems.

We have created a configuration server to provide a set of configuration files from a Git repository to client applications. In this chapter, we learned about the Spring Cloud configuration service and how to build and consume the configuration service.

In this chapter, we explored the need for the configuration service and the solution, by Spring Cloud Config, to store config in environments and retrieve the config through a simple point-to-point service call.

In the next chapter, we'll look at the Eureka Client and Server for the service discovery.