spring boot external config

Question

I am trying to load an external properties file into my spring boot app. initially I used @PropertySource in the config class. but now I want to remove this annotation so th

Answer 1

In command line you should use below property to mention an additional boot configuration file:

--spring.config.location="file:/path/to/application.properties"

An alternative would be:

-Dspring.config.location="file:/path/to/application.properties"

Note that characters are lower case and the word separator is a period ..

Otherwise you can use an environment variable with key you used already:

• In a *nix system:

  export SPRING_CONFIG_NAME=file:/path/to/application.properties
  

• In Windows OS:

  set SPRING_CONFIG_NAME=file:/path/to/application.properties