This is an EXPERIMENTAL, TEMPORARY repository for JHipster using microservices

Introduction

This repository is:

EXPERIMENTAL
TEMPORARY

This is a proof of concept of using JHipster in a microservices architecture, using:

What is currently provided

JHiRegistry is an application registry, based on Netflix Eureka
JHiGateway is a JHipster application which is also a router, based on Netflix Zuul
JHiDashboard is a monitoring dashboard, based on Netflix Turbine
app1 is a JHipster application, which registers itself to JHiRegistry

How to use it

Run mvn on each project to get them running.

JHiGateway and app1 will register themselves to JHiRegistry
JHiGateway will route requests to /api/foos to app1

You can also run several app1 instances by changing their Spring Boot server.port property, and you will see them in JHiRegistry.

What is missing

Monitoring and logging: this should be done using the ELK stack, with Logstash handling the Spring Boot logs

What should be done

Have a nice uniform UI for everything: JHiRegistry and JHiDashboard should be available in the Admin dashboard of JHiGateway, with the usual JHipster UI
JHiGateway should also have an admin UI to add/remove/edit routes at runtime: Zuul allows this using a Cassandra backend, we might also need to implement another backend (which is easy).
Have some validated workflows to work on AngularJS (served by JHiGateway) and a REST endpoint served by a backend application (and routed by JHiGateway)

What will be done in the future

JHiRegistry, JHiDashboard will be standalone applications.
JHiGateway might be a standalone application, or be generated by JHipster (still needs to be discussed)
JHipster applications will have a new option to register themselves to Eureka