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Published inApr 2018
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Piotr Mińkowski
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Piotr Mińkowski

Piotr works as a Solution Architect at Red Hat. He has several years of experience in software architecture and development. During this time, he was working in large organizations, where he was responsible for IT transformation to the modern cloud-native development approach. He is interested in technologies related to programming, containerization, and microservices. He writes about it in his blog https://piotrminkowski.com.
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Building a client-side application


If you set port 8888 as the default for the server, the configuration on the client side is really simple. All you need to do is to provide the bootstrap.ymlfile with the application name and include the following dependency in yourpom.xml. Of course, that rule is applicable only on localhost, because the auto-configured Config Server address for a client ishttp://localhost:8888:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-config</artifactId>
</dependency>

If you set a port different than 8888 for the server, or it is running on a different machine than the client application, you should also set its current address in bootstrap.yml. Here are the bootstrap context settings, which allow you to fetch properties for client-service from the server available on port 8889. When running the application with the--spring.profiles.active=zone1 argument, it automatically fetches the...

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Piotr Mińkowski

Piotr works as a Solution Architect at Red Hat. He has several years of experience in software architecture and development. During this time, he was working in large organizations, where he was responsible for IT transformation to the modern cloud-native development approach. He is interested in technologies related to programming, containerization, and microservices. He writes about it in his blog https://piotrminkowski.com.
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