Springboot application in pivotal Cloud with different environments

Question

I am using a Pivotal Cloud foundry with different testing environments (test, QA, UAT, PROD) Spring boot application I have created multiple properties files(Each pointing to different db) like

application-dev.properties
application-test.properties
application-qa.properties
application-uat.properties
application-prod.properties

if it is in local i am running by seting -Dspring.progiles.active=test/qa/uat/prod

 mvn clean compile springboot:run -Dspring.progiles.active=test

How can I make it customize my application to use the specific properties file based on the environment in the cloud? What all the configurations do I need to change? Below is my application.properties file.

spring.profiles.active=test

spring.datasource.url=
spring.datasource.username=
spring.datasource.password=
spring.datasource.driver-class =org.hibernate.dialect.TeradataDialect
spring.jpa.database-platform=org.hibernate.dialect.TeradataDialect
spring.jpa.show-sql = true
spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto = none
spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.default_schema=

spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.dialect= org.hibernate.dialect.TeradataDialect
server.port=9090

logging.level.org.springframework.web=INFO
logging.level.org.hibernate=INFO
logging.file=myapplication.log

or do I need to change whenever I move to higher environments?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You've to move all your property files to GIT by leveraging Spring Cloud Config Server. From your application, use bootstrap.yml file to connect with Config Server and you'll be providing the environment name like prod, dev, qa.

Answer 2

You can have one applicaiton.yml file for all of your environments and separate environment-specific manifest file. Use spring profile feature to add environment-specific properties. Spring will auto pick the properties based on the active environment profile and manifest file. Example application.yml can have

spring:
  profiles:  default
  username: xyz

spring:
  profiles:  development
  username: abc

And in an environment-specific manifest file you can have:

env:
  SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE: development