Spring Consul app crashes when there is no agent up

Question

We have started to explore Spring Cloud Consul and we see that if the Consul agent is down the app crashes when it started... is it the expected behavior? we have expected that the app will wait to the agent to be up and retry at least several times or at least that this behavior will be configurable...

Also if the agent was up at start it successfully registers the service in the catalog but if at some point the agent went down even for several seconds the app will fail to talk the agent and will not retry to talk with the agent again... This cause a scenario that the app is up but it is no longer talking to the agent again we would expect a retry...

Answer 1

It is an open issue that we are tracking.