navneetlalg/eureka repository overview

⁠Supported tags and respective Dockerfile link

• latest⁠, 11-jre⁠, 11-jre-stretch⁠, 11-jre-windows⁠
• 8-jre⁠, 8-jre-alpine⁠, 8-jre-stretch⁠, 8-jre-windows⁠
• 7-jre-alpine⁠, 7-jre-jessie⁠

⁠What is Netflix Eureka?

As the Github repo for Netflix's Eureka registry says itself: “Eureka is a REST (Representational State Transfer) based service that is primarily used in the AWS cloud for locating services for the purpose of load balancing and failover of middle-tier servers.” — Netflix

• Link to Netflix Eureka github⁠

⁠How to use this image?

Using this image is very simple. You just have to pull this image and run by publishing the desired port.

docker run -p 8761:8761 navneetlalg/eureka:latest

OR you can also use docker-compose.yml to create a service. This is the preferred way since you will require to connect other services to Eureka

version: '3.1'
services:
  registry:
    image: navneetlalg/eureka:8-jre-alpine
    ports:
      - 8761:8761

This API is based on spring-boot, In case you want to make changes to any default configuration like ports, etc can be done by setting environment variables SPRING_APPLICATION_JSON.

You can find the more detailed description related to spring-boot configuration over here.⁠