Spring Boot Tips: Easiest Way To Provide Environment Variables

Spring Boot has excellent support for externalized configuration. You can supply configuration through properties files, YAML files, environment variables, command-line arguments, and several other sources. Spring Boot Configuration Management Best Practices Explore Spring Boot Configuration Management Best Practices to learn more. That flexibility is useful, but local development still presents a small annoyance: where should you define environment variables? You could export them from .bashrc or .zshrc, but then they affect every terminal session. You could configure them in your IDE, but each run configuration and each developer may need the same setup. For local development, I usually prefer a small file in the project directory.

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