Software Architecture with Spring 5.0

Implementing a configuration server

A Spring Cloud configuration server is built on the top of a regular Spring Boot application. All you need to do is add the following additional dependency:

compile('org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-config-server')

Once the dependency has been added, you need to activate the configuration server using an additional annotation in the application, as shown in the following code:

@SpringBootApplication@EnableConfigServerpublic class ConfigServerApplication {  public static void main(String[] args)   {    SpringApplication.run(ConfigServerApplication.class, args);  }}

Finally, you need to provide the Git repository URL, which stores the configuration for your microservices in the application.yaml file, as follows: ...