Does Feign retry require some sort of configuration?

Question

I just tried to do a attempted a seamless upgrade of a service in a test setup. The service is being accessed by a Feign client. And naively I was under the impression that

Answer 1

If you are using ribbon you can set properties similar to the following (substituting "localapp" for your serviceid):

localapp.ribbon.MaxAutoRetries=5
localapp.ribbon.MaxAutoRetriesNextServer=5
localapp.ribbon.OkToRetryOnAllOperations=true