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Service Discovery: Eureka & Client-Side Load Balancing

A service instance's IP address changes every time Kubernetes reschedules it. This module is how one service finds another without ever hardcoding where it lives.

Learning objectives

  • Beginner: Register a service with a Eureka server and confirm it appears in Eureka's dashboard.
  • Intermediate: Call another service by its logical name instead of a hardcoded host:port.
  • Advanced: Explain how client-side load balancing distributes calls across multiple healthy instances without a centralized load balancer in the path.

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Service Discovery: Eureka & Client-Side Load Balancing

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