Support for Spring Boot

We should provide a spring-boot starter for jetcd and eventually get it included in official spring-boot repo once stable.

That would allow people working with spring boot to configure jetcd via properties like:

jetcd.endpoints[0] = http://node-1:2379
jetcd.endpoints[1] = http://node-2:2379
jetcd.user.name = user
jetcd.user.password = pwd
...

And then using IOC to inject jetcd instance like:

class MyApp {
    @Autowired
    private JEtcd client;
}

Or even a specific client:

class MyApp {
    @Autowired
    private KV client;
}

I can work on this if there is any interest.

[lburgazzoli]

I think there should be a standalone spring-boot-starter-etcd on which spring-cloud-etcd should be based as not everyone requires spring-cloud bits.

[ScienJus]

@skyao

I totally agree with you.

My Spring Cloud Etcd was created to replace Spring Cloud Consul. it will work with Spring Cloud Feign without any changes.maybe in the future, it can also replace Spring Cloud Consul Config.

If you need, I am willing to participate in your new project.

@lburgazzoli

yes, in spring-boot-starter-etcd we can create auto-configure for clients and health check.