blog-environments-with-spring-profiles

this project shows how to use spring profiles for different environments and configurations.

Technologies / Frameworks

• Java 1.8
• Spring Boot Web Application (embedded tomcat)
• Lombok
  Install the lombok plugin and activate Enable annotation processing (IDEA Preferences).

Dependencies

no external dependencies

Deployment

use the jvm parameter -Dspring.profiles.active to configure the environment.

Spring Profiles

there are two general environment profiles:

• test
  configures logback to use file logging and some test settings.
• prod
  configures logback to use file logging and some production settings.

Example config

• server dude
  -Dspring.profiles.active=prod,dude

run fat jar in console with profile

$ JAVA_OPTS=-Dspring.profiles.active=test ./spring-profiles.jar