Spring Cloud Config Server is a centralized configuration server that you can run independently as a microservice using an embedded web server. Moreover, you can also club it with other services if you want. However, this is not recommended since we want to implement a pure microservice.
This works well with different backends, such as version control systems, Vault, JDBCs, and filesystems. It works quite well if you want to have security, encryption/decryption, and more.
Spring Cloud Config Server provides an HTTP resource-based API for external configuration (name-value pairs or equivalent YAML content).
We'll implement the JDBC version of the backend for our OTRS Config Server, and use H2 as the database. First, ...
