Spring Cloud Config provides server and client-side support for externalized configuration in a distributed system. With the Config Server you have a central place to manage external properties for applications across all environments.
Spring Cloud Config Server features:
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HTTP, resource-based API for external configuration (name-value pairs, or equivalent YAML content)
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Encrypt and decrypt property values (symmetric or asymmetric)
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Embeddable easily in a Spring Boot application using
@EnableConfigServer
Config Client features (for Spring applications):
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Bind to the Config Server and initialize Spring
Environmentwith remote property sources -
Encrypt and decrypt property values (symmetric or asymmetric)
Samples:
https://spring.io/projects/spring-cloud-config#samples