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Version: 2.0

How it works

The config microservice is based on Spring Cloud Config.

Spring Cloud Config provides a centralized server for managing the configuration of an application.
It allows you to centralize configuration files in a repository (typically Git) and distribute them to multiple microservices in a distributed architecture.

The main concepts behind Spring Cloud Config are :

  • Centralized configuration storage: The Regards services configuration files are stored in a centralized repository. These configurations can specific to an environment or to a particular microservice.
  • Config server: The Spring Cloud Config Server is a Spring Boot application that exposes a REST API, enabling microservices te retrieve their configurations. This is the role of the Config microservice.
  • Config clients: the multiple Regards microservices use the Spring Cloud Config Client to retrieve their configuration. On startup, each microservice connects to the Config server and recover its configuration.