Spring Cloud Config Server Shared Properties Across Applications

Question

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

Answer 1

I found working solution here https://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-config/single/spring-cloud-config.html, paragraph "2.1.5 Sharing Configuration With All Applications". It says:

With file-based (i.e. git, svn and native) repositories, resources with file names in application* are shared between all client applications (so application.properties, application.yml, application-*.properties etc.). You can use resources with these file names to configure global defaults and have them overridden by application-specific files as necessary.

You should create application.properties or application.yml at the top level of configuration repository (if it is git or svn based). Don't forget to commit the changes.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

This is how I have configured for my setup.

1 All Common properties across all services and environments will be in root->application.properties files

2 All Common properties across all environments specific to service will be root->service-X.properties files

3: Similarly, to have common properties across specific environment use env->application.properties file

server:
  port: 8888
spring:
  cloud:
    config:
      server:
        git:
          uri:[git repo]
          search-paths: /,/{profile}/