Mastering Spring Boot 2.0

Multiple profiles inside a single YAML file

A YAML file can contain configuration for multiple profiles. You can define multiple profile-specific configurations in a single YAML file. Spring Boot provides a spring.profiles key to indicate when the document applies. Let's see the following example of how to define multiple profile-specific configurations in a single YAML file:

 
#Used for all profiles 
 
logging.level: 
org.springframework: INFO 
 
#'dev' profile only 
--- 
 
spring.profiles: dev 
database: 
   host: localhost 
   user: dev 
 
#'prod' profile only 
 
--- 
 
spring.profiles: prod 
database: 
   host: 192.168.200.109 
   user: admin 

In this application.yml file, we have defined database settings according to two profiles, dev and prod, by using a spring.profile ...