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Step 3 – making each microservice Spring Cloud Config-aware using the Spring Cloud Config Client component

The last step is to make the necessary changes to the microservice (configuration client) so that the configuration will be propagated by the configuration server once it is updated in the Git repository. The important point at this moment is to create a new property file called bootstrap.properties and copy all the properties from the application.properties file, or you can directly rename application.properties to bootstrap.properties.

The reason is that Spring will process the bootstrap.properties file first, even before the bootstrap application and configuration server linked with it for configuration updates. You need to add a ...