Spring Cloud Config Client Without Spring Boot

Question

We have an existing spring web app deployed as a WAR file into Amazon Elastic Beanstalk. Currently we load properties files as http resources to give us a single source of p

Answer 1

Posting as an answer because I don't have enough points to comment on Dave Syer's excellent answer. We have implemented his proposed solution in production and it is working as expected. Our newer apps are being written using Boot, while our legacy apps use Spring, but not boot. We were able to use Spring Cloud Config to create a property service that serves properties for both. The changes were minimal. I moved the legacy property files out of the war file to the property service git repository, and changed the property definition from a classpath reference to a URL as Dave describes and inserted our system environment variable just as we did for classpath. It was easy and effective.