Accessing the source code

The source code for this book can be found in the GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Microservices-with-Spring-Boot-and-Spring-Cloud-Third-Edition.

To be able to run the commands in the Linux server in WSL 2 that are described in this book, download the source code to a folder and set up an environment variable, $BOOK_HOME, that points to that folder. Sample commands are as follows:

export BOOK_HOME=~/Microservices-with-Spring-Boot-and-Spring-Cloud-Third-Edition
git clone https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Microservices-with-Spring-Boot-and-Spring-Cloud-Third-Edition.git $BOOK_HOME

To verify access to source code downloaded to the Linux server in WSL 2 from Visual Studio Code, run the following commands:

cd $BOOK_HOME
code .

Visual Studio Code will open a window from where you can start to inspect the source code. You can also start a Terminal window for running bash commands in the Linux server from the menu selection...