How to configure Profiles in Spring Boot

📰 Dev.to · Muhammad Zaid

Learn to configure profiles in Spring Boot for efficient environment management

intermediate Published 8 Sept 2020

Action Steps

Create a new Spring Boot project using Spring Initializer with default values
Configure profiles in the application.properties file using the spring.profiles.active property
Create separate property files for different profiles, such as application-dev.properties and application-prod.properties
Use the @Profile annotation to enable or disable beans based on the active profile
Test the profile configuration by running the application with different spring.profiles.active values

Who Needs to Know This

Backend developers and DevOps engineers can benefit from this knowledge to manage different environments for their Spring Boot applications

Key Insight

💡 Use spring.profiles.active to manage different environments in Spring Boot

Key Takeaways

Learn to configure profiles in Spring Boot for efficient environment management

First step is to create a project in Spring Initializer using the default values as shown in image....