When spring config server is down and GIT under maintenance and spring config client at the initial startup

Question

Spring Config-Client is in initial startup so It would not have cached the data from config server, if either Config-Server or GIT or both are down - what can be done in that case to get the data and maintain service availability.

Answer 1

You can use the following (basedir) element of yml file with following hierarchy. The "basedir" element will cache your config data whenever application restarts and keep that on the specified path which is specified against this key as a value. Example : basedir : C:\POC_CONFIG_SERVER\config-repo-am

server:
  port: 8888

spring:
  application:
    name: cloud-config-server
  cloud:
    config:
      server:
        git:
          uri: ${uri}
          force-pull: true
          skip-ssl-validation: true
          skipSslValidation: true
          username: ${username}
          password: '${password}'
          default-label: master
          basedir: ${basedir}