February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
406 pages
9h 55m
English
The config server stores configurations in a hierarchical manner. This way, the application only needs to know the address of the config server and then connect to it to get the remaining configurations.
There are two popular config servers. One is Hashicorp's Consul and the other is Spring Config Server. We will use Spring Config Server to keep the stack consistent to Spring.
Let's go over the steps to start using a config server. There are two parts to using externalized configuration: the server (serving the properties) and the client.
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