I have jdbc property files which I take from external configuration web-service In spring boot in order to set mysql props it\'s easy as adding those to application.properti
Since spring boot 1.3 EnvironmentPostProcessor is available for this purpose. Create a subclass of it and register in META-INF/spring.factories A good example is here :
https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-sleuth/blob/48f3f9783f277a795d0210399f0ea09b7f1a4e71/spring-cloud-sleuth-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/sleuth/autoconfig/TraceEnvironmentPostProcessor.java