For an explanation about spring cloud config see http://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-config/spring-cloud-config.html 

The runtime uses spring cloud config (besides the all the other functionality that spring cloud config uses) for changing/reloading properties. In the configured folder one can place an application.properties and/or application-debug.properties (and yaml variants) as the default name is application (can be configured via spring.application.name=application).

1. Client

Spring config client is integrated in the blueriq-web.

Client config options

spring:
  cloud:
    config:
      uri: http://localhost:8888
      username: <cloud-server-username> (*)
      password: <cloud-server-password> (*)
      failFast: true
      retry:
        max-attempts: 10
        initial-interval: 5000
        max-interval: 10000

* To make a connection to cloud config server, see #scsauth

application.properties will not contain any property meant for the config client

2. Server

Spring config server will run separately and handle the property files. The client will communicate with the server to get the property files.

The property files will either come from the file-system or use GIT.

encrypt:
  failOnError: false
  key: "IGotTheKey"
  key-store:
    secret: "IGotTheSecret"
spring:
  cloud:
    config:
      server:
        bootstrap: true (*)

* Indicates that the server should read it’s own application.properties from the remote config server (GIT or filesystem)

spring:
  profiles:
    active: native
  cloud:
    config:
      server:
        native:
          searchLocations: file:D:/local-properties

spring:
  cloud:
    config:
      server:
        git:
          uri: https://git.blueriq.com/config-repo.git
          basedir: target/config
          username: <git_username>
          password: <git_password>

server:
  port: 8888
security:
  user:
    name: <username> (*)
    password: <password> (*)
management:
  context-path: /admin

 * Username and password that will be used for the client to connect to this server.

Further reading

Reading properties from file system

Reading properties from GIT