Spring Boot FAQ: Top Questions
45. How do you use profiles to manage environment-specific configurations?
Spring Boot allows you to define separate property files for different environments using the spring.profiles.active setting.
🗺️ Steps:
- Create
application-dev.properties,application-prod.properties, etc. - Activate a profile via CLI, environment variable, or
application.properties.
📥 Example:
spring.profiles.active=dev🏆 Expected Output:
Loads application-dev.properties at runtime.🛠️ Use Cases:
- Managing config across dev, test, and prod environments.
- Avoiding hardcoded values and sensitive info in codebase.