Add spring-cloud-config-server ability to share common configuration across applications

Right now it doesn’t seem possible to share common configuration across applications. This might be a typical use case for certain types of configurations such as shared resources and system wide conventions. Perhaps it would be possible to add something conventional like a bootstrap.yml file for this purpose. Some ideas for naming here:

• defaults.yml
• base.yml
• common.yml
• shared.yml
• application.yml

This could also support the label variants as well (e.g. application-development.yml, application-production.yml, etc.) The last one is particularly interesting because it is already a convention for Spring Boot. It seems to make sense in a system context as well.

Open to suggestions, but this is something that seems general enough to warrant some sort of support.

[shashanksinghal]

@dsyer Thanks for the prompt response. I actually got it working just now. So I am not sure the behaviour I am seeing is a bug or its intended (and should be put in doc in that case)

My application.yml now looks like:

server:
  port: 8888

spring:
  profiles:
    active: native
  cloud:
    config:
      server:
        native:
          search-locations: classpath:config/,classpath:config/global.yml

What is happening currently is that what I put in global.yml is seen across all clients. In the config folder I can put ymls as {application-name}.yml and its seen by that application only.

Even if its not intended I am happy for now and hope it remains same 😃

I am on spring-cloud-config-server v1.1.0.M3 (through spring cloud Brixton M3)

Thanks again!

[spencergibb]

@btiernay That is currently how `application.[properties|yml] is shared across all applications using config server.