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Usage of Zuul and Gateway

I'm creating a microservice architecture demo application.

I got a doubt that, do we need both Zuul and API-Gateway? What is not possible in Zuul and API-Gateway so that we need both?

Please suggest.

Solution

  • Zuul brings along the capabilities of a gateway (or API-gateway). As stated in the documentation:

    Zuul is a JVM-based router and server-side load balancer from Netflix

    It is well integrated in the sping-boot cloud project and can be used as router and load balancer. This are the core features of a gateway. Thus I would not double this function and stick to Zuul here.

    Also I want to point out, that there are a lot of similar API-gateway solutions that can be used in the context of a spring-boot application. Here you can find an article explaining and comparing them. The three products mentioned there are:

    • NGINX
    • Zuul
    • Spring Cloud Gateway