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Microservices Starter Kit

Production-ready Spring Boot microservices template with service discovery, API gateway, and observability

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Overview

A battle-tested microservices starter kit providing a complete foundation for building distributed Spring Boot applications. Includes service discovery, API gateway, centralized config, distributed tracing, and CI/CD pipeline — all ready to deploy.

What's Included

  • API Gateway — Spring Cloud Gateway with rate limiting and JWT auth
  • Service Discovery — Eureka server with health-check routing
  • Config Server — Centralized configuration with Git backend
  • Auth Service — JWT-based authentication with refresh tokens
  • Order Service — Example bounded context with full CRUD
  • Notification Service — Event-driven via Kafka

Quick Start

# Clone and start all services
git clone https://github.com/amritanka/microservices-starter
cd microservices-starter
docker-compose up -d

Observability Stack

  • Distributed tracing — Micrometer + Zipkin
  • Metrics — Prometheus + Grafana dashboards
  • Logging — Structured JSON logs with correlation IDs
  • Health checks — Spring Boot Actuator on every service

Tech Stack

Spring Boot 3.3 · Spring Cloud 2024 · PostgreSQL · Kafka · Docker · GitHub Actions