spring-boot client unable to start with consul

Question

I have setup and run consul using docker on my system using following command:

sudo docker run -p 8500:8500 consul:0.9.2

Consul is running fine as I can check from the consul UI (Image attached below):

Now, I am trying to run my spring-boot service to use this consul instance for service discovery and registration. But, whenever i start it gives me following exception:

2017-09-02 18:58:17.091 ERROR 5578 --- [  restartedMain] o.s.c.c.c.ConsulPropertySourceLocator    : Fail fast is set and there was an error reading configuration from consul.
2017-09-02 18:58:18.183 ERROR 5578 --- [  restartedMain] o.s.c.c.c.ConsulPropertySourceLocator    : Fail fast is set and there was an error reading configuration from consul.
2017-09-02 18:58:19.375 ERROR 5578 --- [  restartedMain] o.s.c.c.c.ConsulPropertySourceLocator    : Fail fast is set and there was an error reading configuration from consul.
2017-09-02 18:58:20.691 ERROR 5578 --- [  restartedMain] o.s.c.c.c.ConsulPropertySourceLocator    : Fail fast is set and there was an error reading configuration from consul.
2017-09-02 18:58:22.114 ERROR 5578 --- [  restartedMain] o.s.c.c.c.ConsulPropertySourceLocator    : Fail fast is set and there was an error reading configuration from consul.
2017-09-02 18:58:23.671 ERROR 5578 --- [  restartedMain] o.s.c.c.c.ConsulPropertySourceLocator    : Fail fast is set and there was an error reading configuration from consul.
2017-09-02 18:58:23.691 ERROR 5578 --- [  restartedMain] o.s.boot.SpringApplication               : Application startup failed

com.ecwid.consul.v1.OperationException: OperationException(statusCode=500, statusMessage='Internal Server Error', statusContent='No cluster leader')
    at com.ecwid.consul.v1.kv.KeyValueConsulClient.getKVValues(KeyValueConsulClient.java:159)
    at com.ecwid.consul.v1.ConsulClient.getKVValues(ConsulClient.java:487)
    at org.springframework.cloud.consul.config.ConsulPropertySource.init(ConsulPropertySource.java:66)
    at org.springframework.cloud.consul.config.ConsulPropertySourceLocator.create(ConsulPropertySourceLocator.java:157)
    at org.springframework.cloud.consul.config.ConsulPropertySourceLocator.locate(ConsulPropertySourceLocator.java:131)
    at org.springframework.cloud.consul.config.ConsulPropertySourceLocator$$FastClassBySpringCGLIB$$b35ebf8.invoke(<generated>)
    at org.springframework.cglib.proxy.MethodProxy.invoke(MethodProxy.java:204)
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.CglibAopProxy$CglibMethodInvocation.invokeJoinpoint(CglibAopProxy.java:738)
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:157)
    at org.springframework.retry.interceptor.RetryOperationsInterceptor$1.doWithRetry(RetryOperationsInterceptor.java:91)
    at org.springframework.retry.support.RetryTemplate.doExecute(RetryTemplate.java:286)
    at org.springframework.retry.support.RetryTemplate.execute(RetryTemplate.java:163)
    at org.springframework.retry.interceptor.RetryOperationsInterceptor.invoke(RetryOperationsInterceptor.java:118)
    at org.springframework.retry.annotation.AnnotationAwareRetryOperationsInterceptor.invoke(AnnotationAwareRetryOperationsInterceptor.java:152)
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:179)
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.CglibAopProxy$DynamicAdvisedInterceptor.intercept(CglibAopProxy.java:673)
    at org.springframework.cloud.consul.config.ConsulPropertySourceLocator$$EnhancerBySpringCGLIB$$66375879.locate(<generated>)
    at org.springframework.cloud.bootstrap.config.PropertySourceBootstrapConfiguration.initialize(PropertySourceBootstrapConfiguration.java:93)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.applyInitializers(SpringApplication.java:567)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.prepareContext(SpringApplication.java:338)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:301)
    at com.pyg.auth.AuthServiceApp.main(AuthServiceApp.java:71)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
    at org.springframework.boot.devtools.restart.RestartLauncher.run(RestartLauncher.java:49)

SpringBoot Main Class is annotated fine (I guess), because my spring-boot service was working fine with another consul instance earlier.

Answer 1

I was able to solve my issue by moving consul server and port configuration from application.yml to bootstrap.yml.

I don't know much about how it was solved and why it was unable to read from application.yml. If anyone has some details about it, pl. let me know.