Create a Spring Boot project using Spring Initializr, as described in Chapter 3, Creating a Set of Cooperating Microservices, in the Using Spring Initializr to generate skeleton code section.

Add a dependency to spring-cloud-starter-netflix-eureka-server.

Add the @EnableEurekaServer annotation to the application class.

Add a Dockerfile, similar to the Dockerfiles that are used for our microservices, with the exception that we export the default Eureka port, 8761, instead of the default port for our microservices, 8080.

Add the Eureka server to our three Docker Compose files, that is, docker-compose.yml, docker-compose-partitions.yml, and docker-compose-kafka.yml, like this:

eureka:

build: spring-cloud/eureka-server

mem_limit: 512m

ports:

- "8761:8761"

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Finally, add some configuration. Please see the Setting up configuration for development use section in this chapter, where we will go through the configuration for both the Eureka server and our microservices.