Disabling Eureka Client when running Zuul Server

Question

I am trying to use Zuul as reverse proxy without discovery server. Things seem to work. One thing that bothers me is that the discovery client keeps looking for a discovery server. How do I disable this behavior?

Answer 1

Solution is as simple as adding this to application.yml:

eureka:
  client:
    enabled: false

As suggested by @spencergibb below, excluding the eureka dependencies also disables the discovery client. I ended up choosing this latter approach as it inherently simplifies my build.