Spring boot external application.properties

Question

I am developing a spring boot application

I want to override some properties in src/main/resources/application.properties with an external file (e.g.

Answer 1

If you do not want to use any solution from above, you could do the following in the start of your main(String args[]) method (before the usage of SpringApplication.run(MyClass.class, args):

//Specifies a custom location for application.properties file.
System.setProperty("spring.config.location", "target/config/application.properties");