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Piotr Mińkowski
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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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Introduction to HTTP API resources


The Config Server provides the HTTP API, which may be invoked in various ways. The following endpoints are available:

  • /{application}/{profile}[/{label}]: This returns data in a JSON format; the label parameter is optional
  • /{application}-{profile}.yml: This returns the YAML format
  • /{label}/{application}-{profile}.yml: A variant of the previous endpoint, where we can pass an optional label parameter
  • /{application}-{profile}.properties: This returns the simple key/value format used by properties files
  • /{label}/{application}-{profile}.properties: A variant of the previous endpoint, where we can pass an optional label parameter

From a client point of view, the application parameter is the name of the application, which is taken from the spring.application.name or spring.config.name property, and profile is an active profile or comma-separated list of active profiles. The last available parameter label is an optional property, important only while working with Git...

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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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