Hello Spring Cloud Team,
I just found Ribbon has been removed in 2020.M3, does it mean Ribbon would not be used as load balance component of Spring Cloud any more? We did lots of enhancements for Ribbon, so any solutions for us to use Ribbon in 2020 version? Can we exclude Spring Cloud LoadBalance and replace it with Ribbon? Thanks a lot
Comment From: spencergibb
Almost 2 years ago we announced that certain spring cloud netflix modules works enter maintenance mode. https://spring.io/blog/2018/12/12/spring-cloud-greenwich-rc1-available-now.
Ribbon itself has been in maintenance mode much longer than that.
Hoxton (where ribbon still has support) will be supported until at least mid 2021.
We've been working on bringing as many features as makes sense to Spring Cloud load balancer.
Comment From: spencergibb
We announced we would be removing the modules December of last year. https://spring.io/blog/2019/12/23/spring-cloud-roadmap-and-hoxton-and-greenwich-maintenance-and-eol-announcements