Do we need to configure both Ribbon and Zuul for Loadbalancing the microservices.
From what I have seen Zuul is more of a conventional reverse-proxy loadbalancer and any request to services thro Zuul will automatically be loadbalanced and I do not have to configure Ribbon in individual microservices.
We will need Ribbon configured in the service only if we need to connect to a service that is not proxied by Zuul.
Is the understanding correct.
If you are using eureka for discovering your services, that are balanced through zuul, you don't need to configure ribbon in any way.
Say, you have a ServiceA that is discovered by eureka and you have a zuul route configured like this one
zuul:
routes:
example:
path: /example/**
serviceId: ServiceA
As soon as you have more than one instance of ServiceA running, zuul will start to load balance the load of all ServiceA with a round robin algorithm.
