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Router: Zuul

Understand how Zuul functions as a dynamic router within the Netflix microservice stack, forwarding requests to the correct services using discovery and filters. Explore Zuul's flexible filtering capabilities, logging, and authentication support, and how it acts as an API gateway to manage complex microservice routing.

Introduction #

Zuul is the routing solution that is part of the Netflix stack.

Zuul is responsible for forwarding external calls to the correct microservice.

Zuul vs. reverse proxy #

The routing could also be provided by a Reverse Proxy.

A Reverse Proxy is a web server that is ...