Spring boot not able to resolve aws param store variable - spring

Question

I’m trying to secure secrets into spring cloud. I have microservice reading configuration from spring cloud, but not able to resolve value from parameter store. For example secure db user and pass.
password=${/config/password} but the path is not resolved
I have added maven dependency
spring-cloud-starter-aws-parameter-store-config
Any ideas are welcome

Answer 1

Maybe you are missing the boostrap.yaml file? It should be in your /src/main/resources/ folder and looks something like this:
aws:
paramstore:
name: your-application-name
default-context: application
profile-separator: _
Additionally, I think the default lookup path is /config/application so you might want to put your param at /config/application/password. Since it is probably specific to an application, you probably want to do it like /config/your-application-name_${environmentName}
You also need the Spring Cloud dependency set up correctly. I have mine in Gradle file. Here is my entire Gradle file for your reference.
buildscript {
ext {
springBootVersion = '2.0.6.RELEASE'
}
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
classpath("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:${springBootVersion}")
}
}
apply plugin: 'idea'
apply plugin: 'groovy'
apply plugin: 'org.springframework.boot'
apply plugin: 'io.spring.dependency-management'
springBoot {
mainClassName 'com.myapi.Application'
}
group = 'com.myapi'
version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
sourceCompatibility = 1.8
jar {
baseName = 'my-api'
version = 1.0
}
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
ext {
springCloudVersion = 'Finchley.RELEASE'
}
dependencyManagement {
imports {
mavenBom "org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-dependencies:${springCloudVersion}"
}
}
dependencies {
implementation "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-security:${springBootVersion}"
implementation "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web:${springBootVersion}"
//AWS Param store configuration
implementation 'com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-core:1.11.477'
implementation 'org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-starter-aws-parameter-store-config'
implementation 'com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-ssm:1.11.475'
implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-actuator'
implementation 'org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-aws-messaging:2.0.1.RELEASE' //AWS SNS configuration
implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-configuration-processor' //Necessary for the #ConfigurationProperties tag
implementation 'org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-aws-autoconfigure:2.0.1.RELEASE' //Necessary for auto wiring AmazonSNS
implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter'
implementation 'org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-all:2.4.15'
implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web'
implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-rest'
implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-jpa'
implementation 'com.github.derjust:spring-data-dynamodb:5.0.4'
//Swagger
implementation 'io.springfox:springfox-swagger2:2.9.2'
implementation 'io.springfox:springfox-swagger-ui:2.9.2'
testImplementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test'
testImplementation 'org.springframework.security:spring-security-test'
testImplementation 'org.spockframework:spock-core:1.1-groovy-2.4'
testImplementation 'org.jsoup:jsoup:1.12.1'
}