(preferred networks). It’s clean, dynamic, and environment-agnostic. Reserve hardcoded hostnames only for local testing.
spring: cloud: inetutils: default-hostname: my-service-01 Or via JVM argument: (preferred networks)
-Dspring.cloud.inetutils.default-hostname=my-service-01 Docker Compose Add a hostname entry to your service: (preferred networks). It’s clean
services: my-app: hostname: my-app extra_hosts: - "my-app:127.0.0.1" Define a hostAliases or ensure your pod spec sets a proper hostname: (preferred networks)