Configuration with Spring Cloud Kubernetes

Cloud native applications need configurations and in this article, we will see how to use Kubernetes ConfigMap to provide this sort of configuration to our Spring application. ConfigMap enables us to separate configurations from Pod (and obviously from our application). Data contained in ConfigMap can be injected in the definition of the Pod using different strategies

Every application needs a configuration, usually on a separated property file that can be read at runtime and this configuration probably changes with the environment. Also, cloud native applications need configurations and in this article, we will see how to use Kubernetes ConfigMap to provide this sort of configuration to our Spring application

Kubernetes Configmap

In Kubernetes, we have ConfigMap, a native component useful to manage configurations. ConfigMap enables us to separate configurations from Pod (and obviously from our application). Data contained in ConfigMap can be injected in the definition of the Pod using different strategies, for example, we can see it as environment variables.

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