Spring Cloud Config Retry

· September 30, 2018

When having a microservices environment we must think of the resiliency of our environment when platform services like config-service, discovery-service are not available for a short period of time. Let’s consider a customer-service which uses discovery first bootstrap registering with a discovery-service and getting external configuration from the config-service. What we want is to be able to start the services in any order.

We rely on Spring Retry which provides the ability to keep re-trying after a failure.

Let’s start with the config-service. Here we just configured that it registers within 10 seconds with the discovery-service instead of the default 30 seconds.

spring:
  application:
    name: config-service

  cloud:
    config:
      server:
        # the server should configure itself from its own remote repository
        bootstrap: true

        git:
          uri: file://${user.dir}/../spring-cloud-services-startup-config

eureka:
  instance:
    lease-renewal-interval-in-seconds: 10

logging.level:
  com.netflix.discovery: trace

For the discovery-service we include the spring-retry dependency

    <dependencies>
        ...
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.retry</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-retry</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        ...
    </dependencies>

and use the following configuration:

spring:
  application:
    name: discovery-service

  cloud:
    config:
      uri: http://localhost:8888
      fail-fast: true
      retry:
        max-attempts: 20

logging.level:
  org.springframework.retry: trace
  com.netflix.discovery: trace

This will keep trying maximum 20 times with an initial backoff interval of 1000ms and an exponential multiplier of 1.1 for subsequent backoffs (maximum 2000ms) to connect to the config-service.

And last the customer-service also need to include the spring-retry library and use the following configuration

spring:
  application:
    name: customer-service

  cloud.config:
    discovery:
      enabled: true
      service-id: config-service
    fail-fast: true
    retry:
      max-attempts: 60

logging.level:
  org.springframework.retry: trace

We make sure that it keeps on re-trying maximum 60 times using the defaults spring.cloud.config.retry.* to register with discovery-service getting the external configuration from config-service.

The code examples with the external configuration you can find here:

https://github.com/altfatterz/spring-cloud-services-startup
https://github.com/altfatterz/spring-cloud-services-startup-config

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