Building a server-side application

We have started by discussing HTTP, a resource-based API provided by the Spring Cloud Config Server, and the way of creating and storing properties there. But now let's move back to the basics. The same as a discovery server, a Config Server may be run as a Spring Boot application. To enable it on the server side, we should include spring-cloud-config-server in our dependencies in the pom.xml file:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-cloud-config-server</artifactId>
</dependency>

In addition to this, we should enable the Config Server on the main application class. It would be a good idea to change the server port to 8888, because it is the default value of the spring.cloud.config.uri property on the client side. For example, it is auto configured...