consul first bootstrap with spring cloud config - spring-boot

Question

Iam using spring-cloud-config for centralized configuration and consul for service discovery. Like eureka first bootstrap - does spring support consul first bootstrap i.e on booting up a client service - I should look up the config server through consul. The otherway round works perfectly fine i.e - in config client bootstrap.properties - I provide the spring.cloud.config.uri=http://localhost:8888 which located the config server and pulls config from it. And in the config repository for my client application - I provide the consul config like :
spring.cloud.consul.host=localhost ,
spring.cloud.consul.port=8500
However, when i try to use consul first bootstrap I am unable to read the properties from config server.
Client Application (for consul first bootstrap):
pom.xml
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-parent</artifactId>
<!-- <version>Brixton.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version> -->
<version>Brixton.M5</version>
<relativePath />
</parent>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-aop</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.retry</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-retry</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-cloud-consul-config</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-consul-all</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-zuul</artifactId>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
bootstrap.properties:
spring.application.name=demo
spring.cloud.config.failFast=true
spring.cloud.config.retry.maxAttempts=20
spring.cloud.config.retry.initialInterval=3000
spring.cloud.consul.host=localhost
spring.cloud.consul.port=8500
DemoApplication.java
#EnableDiscoveryClient
#EnableZuulProxy
#SpringBootApplication
public class DemoSleuthApplication {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(DemoSleuthApplication.class, args);
}
}
#RefreshScope
#RestController
class RestAPIController
{
#Value(value = "${server.port}")
String port;
#Value(value = "${message}")
String message;
#RequestMapping("/message")
public String welcome(){
String s = this.restTemplate.getForObject("http://localhost:"+this.port+"/message", String.class);
return this.message + s;
}
}
In the consul K/V store
folder structure config/demo
Key/Value : spring.cloud.config.uri=http://localhost:8888
Config server git repo: not adding the config server code for brevity
demo.properties
server.port=9080
message=test
Ideally when I implement the concept of consul first bootstrap - I am thinking consul should be started and the client should identify itself using the #EnableDiscoveryClient annotation and in the consul properties - find config server url , and fetch the config properties from the server configurations. But in my case, service is being discovered and registered in consul but i am not able to read properties from config server git repo.

Answer 1

It was done here. It is available in SNAPSHOTS and in RC2 which will come hopefully next week.

Answer 2

Giving my sample code here for benefit of others. I had to do a lot of tinkering with the properties file to get to this.
As answered by #spencergibb it is available in SNAPSHOT only for now.
This time i did not use any key value properties in consul.
config server code:
pom.xml:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-cloud-config-server</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-consul-all</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-cloud-consul-discovery</artifactId>
</dependency>
application.yml
spring:
profiles:
active: native
cloud:
config:
server:
native:
search-locations: file://${HOME}/properties
consul:
port: 8500
host: localhost
enabled: true
discovery:
enabled: true
register: true
service-name: server --registers in consul as server instead of config-server
hostname: localhost
server:
port: 8888
bootstrap.yml ::
spring:
application:
name: config-server
COnfigServerApplication.java
#EnableDiscoveryClient
#EnableConfigServer
#SpringBootApplication
public class SpringConfigServerApplication {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(SpringConfigServerApplication.class, args);
}
}
Client microservice: demo
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>Brixton.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
<!-- <version>Brixton.M5</version> -->
<relativePath />
</parent>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-config</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-consul-all</artifactId>
</dependency>
bootstrap.properties
spring.application.name=demo-spring-cloud-sleuth
spring.cloud.config.failFast=true
spring.cloud.config.retry.maxAttempts=20
spring.cloud.config.retry.initialInterval=3000
spring.cloud.config.enabled=true
spring.cloud.config.discovery.enabled=true
spring.cloud.config.discovery.serviceId=config-server
spring.cloud.consul.discovery.hostName=localhost
spring.cloud.consul.discovery.register=true -- unless this is there, the service fails to register in consul.
git uri property file for client:
server.port=9082
message=message local
foo1=bar