Hello I have a spring cloud config server setup. I have multiple profiles (environments): dev, prod, test, etc.
the contents of bootstrap.properties on a config client side are-
spring.application.name=hazelcast,kafka.
....
.... including uri of config server.
Now in my repository which the config server is pointing to, there is application.properties in addition to environment specific application-dev.properties, application-prod.properties etc. I also have hazelcast-dev.properties, hazelcast-prod.properties, kafka-dev.properties, kafka-prod.properties etc.
When I run my config client spring boot application with profiles.active set as dev. The config client is able to retrieve the following files from the server:
1.application.properties.
2.application-dev.properties.
3.hazelcast-dev.properties.
4.kafka-dev.properties.
And when i run with prod profiles active the corresponding prod files are retrieved (the values in them are added to spring's Environment).
Now this works and that's good, but I would like to understand the logic behind it. Is spring.application.name specifically meant for this?
I went through the documentation and things weren't absolutely clear regarding it.
Thank you in advance!
EDIT-
https://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-static/spring-cloud.html#_application_context_hierarchies
The Section Bootstrap Application Context in the above link has almost answered my question but would appreciate someone to just confirm it.
It has a few different purposes. It is used as the application name when registering with a service registry such as eureka. It is also used to look up <applicationName>[-<profile>].[properties|yml] in configserver as well as configuration in consul or zookeeper.