Before we proceed, be sure the check out the spring-cloud-config. Depending on your use case, this might be what you want , Spring Cloud Config. Lets say that we have following .properties files in our project: application.propertiesapplication-dev.propertiesapplication-prod.propertiescustom.properties Spring will use these files, if we do not tell it otherwise. We can override the location of … Continue reading Spring external .properties file →