Spring Cloud Configuration Server not working with local properties file

Question

I have been playing around with the Spring Cloud project on github located here: https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-config

However I have been running into some problems getting it to read a local properties file instead of pulling the properties from github. It seems that spring is ignoring the local file even when I remove all the references to github. There is a similar question posted here: Spring-Cloud configuration server ignores configuration properties file

But I haven't seen any good answers yet. I'm wondering if anyone can point me to an example of this? I'd like to set my properties locally instead of using a git repo of any kind. I assume someone has encountered this before, and if there is an example of it somewhere, I'd really like to see it so that I can get moving in the right direction.

Answer 1

All my code is here https://github.com/spencergibb/communityanswers/tree/so27131143

src/main/java/Application.java

@Configuration
@EnableAutoConfiguration
@EnableConfigServer
public class Application {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
    }
}

src/main/resources/application.yml

spring:
  application:
     name: myconfigserver
  profiles:
     active: native

my:
  property: myvalue

src/main/resources/myapp.yml

my:
  otherprop: myotherval

To get the properties for an app named myapp, do the following.

curl http://localhost:8080/myapp/default

{
     "name": "default",
     "label": "master",
     "propertySources": [
          {
                "name": "applicationConfig: [classpath:/myapp.yml]",
                "source": {
                     "my.otherprop": "myotherval"
                }
          },
          {
                "name": "applicationConfig: [classpath:/application.yml]",
                "source": {
                     "spring.application.name": "myconfigserver",
                     "spring.profiles.active": "native",
                     "my.property": "myvalue"
                }
          }
     ]
}