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 profiles in the bootstrap.properties file, e.g.:

spring.application.name=app-name
spring.cloud.config.uri=http://default-config-server.com

---
spring.profiles=dev
spring.cloud.config.uri=http://dev-config-server.com

---
spring.profiles=stage
spring.cloud.config.uri=http://stage-config-server.com

---
spring.profiles=prod
spring.cloud.config.uri=http://prod-config-server.com

And then I set the cla -Dspring.profiles.active=dev but the loaded config server is always the last one set in the file (i.e. prod config server would be loaded in the above settings, and then if prod is removed, stage would be loaded).

Is it possible to set bootstrap profiles for the cloud config server? I followed this example but can't seem to get it working. For what it's worth, these profiles work great to load the correct config (i.e. app-name-dev.properties will load if the dev profile is active), but aren't being pulled from the proper config server.

Solution 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.

Solution 2

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

Comments

[M. Deinum]

That will only work for yaml files not property files (afaik). Just add bootstrap-[profile].properties i.e. bootstrap-dev.properties which would contain the needed (overridden) configuration.

[LarryW]

Why not just set SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE (in the environment) in Docker, and skip the spring.profiles.active in bootstrap.yml?