Setting active profile and config location from command line in spring boot
My best practice is to define this as a VM "-D" argument. Please note the differences between spring boot 1.x and 2.x.
The profiles to enable can be specified on the command line:
Spring-Boot 2.x (works only with maven)
-Dspring-boot.run.profiles=local
Spring-Boot 1.x
-Dspring.profiles.active=local
example usage with maven:
Spring-Boot 2.x
mvn spring-boot:run -Dspring-boot.run.profiles=local
Spring-Boot 1.x and 2.x
mvn spring-boot:run -Dspring.profiles.active=local
Make sure to separate them with a comma for multiple profiles:
mvn spring-boot:run -Dspring.profiles.active=local,foo,bar
mvn spring-boot:run -Dspring-boot.run.profiles=local,foo,bar
There are two different ways you can add/override spring properties on the command line.
Option 1: Java System Properties (VM Arguments)
It's important that the -D parameters are before your application.jar otherwise they are not recognized.
java -jar -Dspring.profiles.active=prod application.jar
Option 2: Program arguments
java -jar application.jar --spring.profiles.active=prod --spring.config.location=c:\config
-Dspring.profiles.active=staging -Dspring.config.location=C:\Config
is not correct.
should be:
--spring.profiles.active=staging --spring.config.location=C:\Config