How do I make Spring Zuul High Available?

Question

I would like to use Zuul as a Proxy for some REST services that I'm using. My question is: since I'm running it as a Spring Boot Application, is there any way to configure it for High Availability?

EDIT: do I need to deploy my application inside an application server which supports HA?

Answer 1

You can deploy multiple instances of your Zuul Proxy behind a load balancer to achieve High Availability.

For example in AWS, you would put it behind an ELB (Elastic Load Balancer).

You can continue to use the standard Spring Boot Executable JAR format without issue.