April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
10h 38m
English
Let’s begin with the simplest example, based on a filesystem backend. By default, Spring Cloud Config Server tries to fetch configuration data from a Git repository. To enable the native profile, we should launch the server with the spring.profiles.active option set to native. It searches for files stored in the following locations, classpath:/, classpath:/config, file:./, file:./config. It means that properties or YAML files may be also placed inside a JAR file. For test purposes, I created a config folder inside src/main/resources. Our configuration files will be stored in that location. Now, we need to go back for a moment to the example from the previous chapter. As you probably remember, I introduced the configuration ...