### Relevant Articles:
- [Spring Cloud – Bootstrapping](http://www.baeldung.com/spring-cloud-bootstrapping)
- [Spring Cloud – Securing Services](http://www.baeldung.com/spring-cloud-securing-services)

- To run the project:
  - copy the appliction-config folder to c:\Users\{username}\ on Windows or /Users/{username}/ on *nix. Then open a git bash terminal in application-config and run:
    - git init
    - git add .
    - git commit -m "First commit"
  - start the config server
  - start the discover server
  - start all the other servers in any order (gateway, svc-book, svc-rating, zipkin)