How does the eureka client find the eureka server in spring boot 1.5.2?

Question

I'm going through this tutorial and I don't see any configuration for the location / url of the eureka server (Only the src/main/resources/bootstrap.properties containing the name of the eureka client), so how does this client know where the Eureka server is?

Answer 1

Because it is using default eureka server address http://127.0.0.1:8761/eureka. If you don't specify any property like below, eureka client will try to connect http://127.0.0.1:8761/eureka and eureka server is running on 8761 port as default.

eureka:
  client:
    service-url:
      defaultZone: http://127.0.0.1:8761/eureka