@ -487,6 +487,14 @@ of services rather than the hostname. Set `eureka.instance.preferIpAddress`
@@ -487,6 +487,14 @@ of services rather than the hostname. Set `eureka.instance.preferIpAddress`
to `true` and when the application registers with eureka, it will use its
IP Address rather than its hostname.
[TIP]
====
If hostname can't be determined by Java, then IP address is sent to Eureka.
Only explict way of setting hostname is by using `eureka.instance.hostname`.
You can set your hostname at the run time using environment variable, for
example `eureka.instance.hostname=${HOST_NAME}`.
====
== Circuit Breaker: Hystrix Clients
Netflix has created a library called https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix[Hystrix] that implements the http://martinfowler.com/bliki/CircuitBreaker.html[circuit breaker pattern]. In a microservice architecture it is common to have multiple layers of service calls.