How do you properly set different Spring profiles in bootstrap file (for Spring Boot to target different Cloud Config Servers)?

Question

We have different config servers per environment. Each spring boot application should target its corresponding config server. I have tried to achieve this by setting profil

Answer 1

Specifying different profiles in a single file is only support for YAML files and doesn't apply to property files. For property files specify an environment specific bootstrap-[profile].properties to override properties from the default bootstrap.properties.

So in your case you would get 4 files bootstrap.properties, bootstrap-prod.properties, bootstrap-stage.properties and bootstrap-dev.properties.

However instead of that you could also only provide the default bootstrap.properties and when starting the application override the property by passing a -Dspring.cloud.config.uri=<desired-uri> to your application.

java -jar <your-app>.jar -Dspring.cloud.config.uri=<desired-url>

This will take precedence over the default configured values.

Answer 2

@LarryW (I cannot answer on the same comment):

I guess the advantage of explicitly adding the property is that it allows you to add a default value (in this case "dev") in case of not setting up the environment variable.

Answer 3

I solved a similar problem with an environment variable in Docker. 

bootstrap.yml

spring:
  application:
    name: dummy_service
  cloud:
    config:
      uri: ${CONFIG_SERVER_URL:http://localhost:8888/}
      enabled: true
  profiles:
    active: ${SPR_PROFILE:dev}

Dockerfile

ENV CONFIG_SERVER_URL=""
ENV SPR_PROFILE=""

Docker-compose.yml

version: '3'

services:

  dummy:
    image: xxx/xxx:latest
    restart: always
    environment:  
      - SPR_PROFILE=docker
      - CONFIG_SERVER_URL=http://configserver:8888/
    ports:
      - 8080:8080
    depends_on:
      - postgres
      - configserver
      - discovery