Developing Java Applications with Spring and Spring Boot

Configuring the Git repository as a properties source

Our Config Server needs to be configured. For that purpose, we will use the application.yaml file. This file should be simple and with minimal configurations as well. The configuration file should look like this:

server:  port: 5000spring:  cloud:    config:      name: configserver      server:        git:          uri: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Spring-5.0-By-Example          search-paths: config-files*

We have configured the application port, which is a common task. We named our Config Server, and the most important part is the server.git.uri configuration property which instructs the Spring Framework to get the configurations files.

Another configuration is search-paths; it allows us to search the configuration in ...