I've a setup with Spring Cloud Config Server and Client as described in the response here. The next thing I'm trying to do is load the properties from application.properties in the client when the service starts. Once I call /actuator/refresh I would like to load it from the Config Server. Is this even possible? Thanks!
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I have two microservices. A Spring Cloud Config Server and another module that implements Spring Cloud Config Client. When I use the default configuration for the Spring Cloud Config Server service (localhost:8888) I can start it locally without any issues, after which I can start my other module as well, using a bootstrap.yml, it clearly finds the Config Server, fetches its properties and starts properly. All good. Now I'd like to push both of these services to Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
The Config Server service works just fine, service is up and running in my Space, and using the browser I can verify that it can still fetch the property files from the specific GitHub repository.
The problem is the other module, the client. I've replaced the default localhost:8888 in its bootstrap.yml file (spring.cloud.config.url parameter) to the now active service in the cloud using the Route bound to it and tried to start it locally. Unfortunately now it simply timeouts during startup. At this point I tried to specify longer timeouts but nothing helps.
Interesting thing is that if I directly copy the URL from the logs that timeouts I see it works properly in the browser locally. So why not in IntelliJ when I try to package the client with the changed parameter?
Sorry, I can't include much details here, but I hope maybe there is a straightforward solution that I've missed. Thanks!
What is bootstrap yaml in spring boot?
And could you advise where I can use it?
bootstrap.yml is used in spring cloud
It is starting before application.yml
It is almost use with spring cloud config server
Spring cloud config server is server which is used to externilize your application configuration.
And when starting your application bootstrap.yml will take the configuration from spring cloud config server.
It also can use encrypting and decrypting some information by :
'{cipher}someyour encoded text'
and server will decode it while pulling the configurations
But you need to create jks
You can reach the documentation for more information about spring cloud :
https://spring.io/guides/gs/centralized-configuration/
Configuration files in spring boot will be loaded in such order:
1. src/main/resources/bootstrap.yml
2. src/main/resources/application.yml
3. config/application.yml
I have a spring cloud project. There are config server (config-srv), eureka server (eureka-srv) and some other service with business logic, let's call it main service (main-srv).
I'm packaging them into jars and run one by one. My apps get their properties from a file in the same directory with jars.
So, I'm setting properties to config-srv through "application-native.properties".
But if i want to change config-srv url (for example, i want http://localhost:9999), how can i share this url for all micro-services before they will boot ? I'm trying to share this url in "application-default.properties" but it makes no effect.
You can put the Spring Cloud Config server details in bootstrap.properties file in each microservices.
spring.application.name=microserviceName
spring.profiles.active=dev
spring.cloud.config.uri=http://localhost:9999
spring.cloud.config.username=your_username
spring.cloud.config.password=your_password
Go through the link to have more detail about spring cloud config
https://howtodoinjava.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-config-server-git/
I have spring web application (not spring boot) running in AWS. I am trying to create centralized configuration server. How to refresh the spring-cloud-client after the changing the properties? As per tutorial
Actuator endpoint by sending an empty HTTP POST to the client’s refresh endpoint, http://localhost:8080/refresh, and then confirm it worked by reviewing the http://localhost:8080/message endpoint.
But my aws Ec2 instances are behind the loadbalancer so i can't invoke the client url. I didn't understand the netflix Eureka and Ribbon much but it seems like adding another level of load balancer in the client side. I don't like this approach. Just to change a property i don't want to make the existing project unnecessarily complex. Is there any other way? or Am I misunderstood Eureka/Ribbon usage?
I have looked at the spring-cloud-config-client-without-spring-boot, spring-cloud-config-client-without-auto-configuration none of them have answer. First thread was answered in 2015. Wondering is there any update?
To get the configuration properties from a config server. You can do a http request. Example:
From the documentation we can see:
/{application}/{profile}[/{label}]
/{application}-{profile}.yml <- example
/{label}/{application}-{profile}.yml
/{application}-{profile}.properties
/{label}/{application}-{profile}.properties
So if you would do a request to http://localhost:8080/applicationName-activeProfile.yml you would receive the properties in .yml format for the application with that name and active profile. Spring boot config clients would automatically provide these values but you will have to provide em manually.
You don't need Eureka/Ribbon for this to work, it's a separate component.
More info: http://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-static/spring-cloud.html#_spring_cloud_config
Maybe you could even use spring-cloud-config but I'm not sure what extra configuration is needed without spring-boot.
https://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-config/
How can I get my spring-boot application (client) to refresh it's properties - which are coming from spring-cloud-config stand alone Server? I've annotated #RefreshScope, added config in bootstrap.yml for spring.cloud.config.uri and spring.application.name I can see server is able to get the config using it's HTTP end-pt and also Client gets the config using spring-boot /manage/env end-pt. It's just that if I commit a property change to git, it is not changing in my Client App.