External configuration for spring-boot application

Question

I have a spring-boot application which I want to run with external configuration file. When I run it as jar (with embedded servlet container), everything is fine. But I want

Answer 1

Spring Boot offer many ways to specify the location of your properties, it´s not needed to modify your sources.

Yo can define the spring.config.location value for example:

• In your tomcat/conf/Catalina/ context descriptors:

• As a JVM parameter in your tomcat setenv.sh file:

  -Dspring.config.location=/path/to/application.properties
  

• As a SPRING_CONFIG_LOCATION environment variable.