Introduction
Spring PetClinic is a well-known sample application built with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud. What makes it interesting from a DevOps perspective is that it is not a single application — it is a distributed system made up of 8 separate microservices that all need to work together. Each service has its own responsibility, its own port, and its own dependencies.
As part of my DMI Cohort 2 final project, I deployed the full Spring PetClinic Microservices stack locally on my Ubuntu Linux machine using Docker Compose. In this post I will walk you through exactly how I did it, what broke along the way, and what the observability stack showed me once everything was running.
Prerequisites
Before starting, make sure you have the following installed on your machine:
