Mastering Spring Cloud

Customizing configuration files

It's one thing to have the ability to create applications quickly and without a huge volume of work, but no less important is the ability to easily customize and override default settings. Spring Boot comes in handy and provides mechanisms that enable configuration management. The simplest way to do that is using configuration files, which are appended to the application fat JAR. Spring Boot automatically detects configuration files whose name start with the application prefix. Supported file types are .properties and .yml. Therefore, we can create configuration files, such as application.properties or application.yml, and even including profile-specific files such as, application-prod.properties or application-dev.yml ...