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Some time ago I had to run Netflix Eureka server (to be more specific it was version 1.1.151) not using Spring Boot.
There were several ways:
- simply deploy eureka-server.war into Tomcat
- use Jetty runner.
The idea of the jetty-runner is extremely simple – run a webapp directly from the command line using a single jar and as much default configuration as possible. Of course, if your webapp is not so straightforward, the jetty-runner has command line options which allow you to customize the execution environment.
- use Webapp Runner.
Webapp runner is designed to allow you to launch an exploded or compressed war that is on your filesystem into a tomcat container with a simple java -jar command.
I decided to go with Webapp Runner.
So, here is the list of steps:
- Download eureka-server war from maven central (e.g. http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.netflix.eureka/eureka-server/1.1.151). Also, we can clone the Netflix Eureka github repo and perform build locally. But, our intent is just get ready to use war file as quick as possible.
- Rename eureka-server-1.1.151.war to eureka-server.war.
- Download webapp-runnner jar from maven central (e.g. http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.github.jsimone/webapp-runner/8.0.24.0)
- I assume that eureka-server.war and webapp-runner-8.0.24.0.jar are located in the same directory. Now we can simply run the eureka-server on port 4000 via
runme.batfile:
$ cat runme.bat
java -jar webapp-runner-8.0.24.0.jar eureka.war --path /eureka --port 4000
Local directory should have the next files/folders:
$ dir /b
eureka-server-1.1.151.war
eureka.war
runme.bat
target/
webapp-runner-8.0.24.0.jar
The server is up and running: check Eureka UI http://localhost:4000/eureka/ or registered apps http://localhost:4000/eureka/v2/apps/ XML output.