In the previous section, a Config Server is set up and accessed using a web browser. In this section, the Search microservice will be modified to use the Config Server. The Search microservice will act as a Config Client.
Follow the steps listed next to use the Config Server instead of reading properties from the application.properties file:
- Add the Spring Cloud Config dependency and the Actuator (if Actuator is not already in place) to pom.xml. The Actuator is mandatory for refreshing the configuration properties:
<dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId> <artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-config</artifactId> </dependency>
- Since we are modifying the Spring Boot Search microservice ...
