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Mastering Spring Cloud
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Mastering Spring Cloud

by Piotr Mińkowski
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
432 pages
10h 38m
English
Packt Publishing
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Git backend

The Git version control system has some features that make it very useful as a repository for property sources. It allows you to easily manage and audit changes. By using well-known VCS mechanisms such as commit, revert, and branching, we can perform important operations a lot easier than in a filesystem approach. This type of backend also has another two key advantages. It forces a separation between the Config Server source code and the property files repository. If you take a look one more time at the previous examples, you will see that the property files were stored together with the application source code. Probably some of you would say that even if we used a filesystem backend, we can store the whole configuration as a ...

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