I currently have a number of deployable applications that work in a distributed fashion to solve a business problem. We are currently using a number of property configuratio
Finally found a solution. It's buried in the issues at github ...
https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-config/issues/32
It worked liked described. I only noticed, that you need to put the files in a /config folder to make it work. If you put it in the root the file ist used by the configserver itself and is not included in the config requests.