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When it runs it will pick up the external configuration from the default local config server on port 8888 if it is running. To modify the startup behaviour you can change the location of the config server using bootstrap.properties (like application.properties but for the bootstrap phase of an application context), e.g.
Further reading
https://tools.blueriq.com/confluence/display/TEC/Spring+Cloud+Config
http://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-config/spring-cloud-config.html
http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/boot-features-external-config.html
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