Spring Boot Configuration File Location From Tomcat - spring-boot

I'm trying to setup backend application so it gets different configuration files depending on env.
On dev env I would like to load default application.yml from classpath. This should be the case when I'm running the app via: mvn spring-boot:run or java -jar ./target/myapp.war
But when this app is running on Tomcat it should load application.yml from server specific file e.g. /etc/apps/myapp/application.yml (not default one from classpath) because server has different mongodb credentials etc...
I don't want to use profiles because this mean I need to put server credentials in project on github in application.yml. I just want that this is known by server administrator and developer don't know anything about it.
Is there any way how can I tell this application inside tomcat to load different configuration file.
In this Tomcat I have other applications that are using spring boot so I need some solution that is independent. Setting globally spring.config.location is not the case because all apps will load this one file.

You can use #PropertyResource annotation with context xml.
NOTE: ignoreResourceNotFound will help not throw exception when file not found, say for Dev env.
#Configuration
#PropertySources({
#PropertySource("classpath:application.properties"),
#PropertySource(value = "file:${config.file}", ignoreResourceNotFound=true)
})
public class AppConfig {
//...
}
/META-INF/context.xml
<Context>
<Parameter name="config.file" value="/yourpath/application.properties"/>
</Context>
If you don't want to save path in context.xml inside your project, there are other ways to define application level context depending on your tomcat version. Please refer here for details for tomcat 9.

If you want to read properties from external location then write bootstrap.yml in your application and delete application.yml.
bootstrap.yml:
spring:
config:
location: file:/home/external/properties/location/
name: application
profiles:
active: dev
file location: /home/external/properties/location/
suppose you need dev and prod environment.Then keep this 3 properties file in this location.
application.yml
application-dev.yml
application-prod.yml
Spring boot read application.yml properties first. If set active profile dev in bootstrap.yml then application.yml value overwirte by application-dev.yml.
Or you can use config server
Look at this

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As refered to in the comments you could use Spring profiles for the different environments and provide separate configuration files for these profiles.
On production:
Add a file application-prod.yml with the production settings.
Start the application with option --spring.profiles.active=prod or environment variable SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE=prod.
On dev environment:
Add a file application-dev.yml with the development settings.
Start the application with option --spring.profiles.active=dev or environment variable SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE=dev.
Note that you can keep some common settings suitable for all environments in your application.yml and only override some specific keys in the environment config files.
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application-test.properties
application-qa.properties
application-uat.properties
application-prod.properties
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How can I make it customize my application to use the specific properties file based on the environment in the cloud?
What all the configurations do I need to change? Below is my application.properties file.
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Example application.yml can have
spring:
profiles: default
username: xyz
spring:
profiles: development
username: abc
And in an environment-specific manifest file you can have:
env:
SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE: development
You've to move all your property files to GIT by leveraging Spring Cloud Config Server. From your application, use bootstrap.yml file to connect with Config Server and you'll be providing the environment name like prod, dev, qa.

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how can handle it for running on another configurations? ( another IP, datasource, and ...)
Am I doing it right or not? thanks
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Create different property files for different profiles using application-{profile}.properties format, e.g. application-dev.properties for dev, and application-prod.properties for production put your profile specific configurations in them. Then when you're running the spring boot application, activate your intended profile using the SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE environment variable or spring.profiles.active system property.
and at the end, you will run your jar file with command
java -jar -Dspring.profiles.active=prod application.jar
You can have different application.properties within your resources folder and use spring profiles for example application-{profile}.properties and run the application with the specified profile. However this still limits the configuration items to what has been hard coded within the properties files. When running the application, if it was to be distributed to other people, where non of the profiles are supported you can provide a properties file at start up.
So in the same directory for example as the .jar file create a file named application.properties with empty place holders for all the variables required for the application so the admin can enter the details correct for them. Then they will be required to start the application with the following command
java -jar 'applicaitonname.jar -Dspring.config.name="file:/path/to/application.properties"
Or springboot will load properties from application.properties files in the following locations:
A /config subdirectory of the current directory.
The current directory
Failing that the default application.properties from the resources folder will be loaded.

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