The Spring Boot Configuration Server can collect properties from multiple sources.
Native properties files are located in your resources
folder in your config server module, under resources/config
by default (and I have not seen a good reason to change it):
Git properties are located in a git repository which is retrieved by the configuration server. There are a lot of resources for this option, as it is a best practice to store application configuration data which has no secrets.
Multiple Properties
If you have for example an application named my_app, then you can have inside that directory properties files for different profiles:
my_app.properties (default)
my_app-dev.properties ("dev" profile)
my_app-acc.properties ("acc" profile for acceptance)
When your app loads values form the configuration server, it will try to find them in the profile-specific properties (if exists) and cascade to the default properties file, same way as normal application configuration. So, for example, if you have the "dev" profile enabled for my_app, then the lookup order will be:
my_app-dev.properties
my_app.properties
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