Appendix A: Common application properties
Various properties can be specified inside your application.properties file, inside your application.yml file, or as command line switches.
This appendix provides a list of common Spring Cloud Consul properties and references to the underlying classes that consume them.
| Property contributions can come from additional jar files on your classpath, so you should not consider this an exhaustive list. Also, you can define your own properties. |
| Name | Default | Description |
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spring.cloud.consul.config.acl-token |
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spring.cloud.consul.config.data-key |
data |
If format is Format.PROPERTIES or Format.YAML then the following field is used as key to look up consul for configuration. |
spring.cloud.consul.config.default-context |
application |
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spring.cloud.consul.config.enabled |
true |
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spring.cloud.consul.config.fail-fast |
true |
Throw exceptions during config lookup if true, otherwise, log warnings. |
spring.cloud.consul.config.format |
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spring.cloud.consul.config.name |
Alternative to spring.application.name to use in looking up values in consul KV. |
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spring.cloud.consul.config.prefix |
config |
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spring.cloud.consul.config.profile-separator |
, |
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spring.cloud.consul.config.watch.delay |
1000 |
The value of the fixed delay for the watch in millis. Defaults to 1000. |
spring.cloud.consul.config.watch.enabled |
true |
If the watch is enabled. Defaults to true. |
spring.cloud.consul.config.watch.wait-time |
55 |
The number of seconds to wait (or block) for watch query, defaults to 55. Needs to be less than default ConsulClient (defaults to 60). To increase ConsulClient timeout create a ConsulClient bean with a custom ConsulRawClient with a custom HttpClient. |
spring.cloud.consul.discovery.acl-token |
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spring.cloud.consul.discovery.catalog-services-watch-delay |
1000 |
The delay between calls to watch consul catalog in millis, default is 1000. |
spring.cloud.consul.discovery.catalog-services-watch-timeout |
2 |
The number of seconds to block while watching consul catalog, default is 2. |
spring.cloud.consul.discovery.consistency-mode |
Consistency mode for health service request. |
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spring.cloud.consul.discovery.datacenters |
Map of serviceId’s → datacenter to query for in server list. This allows looking up services in another datacenters. |
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spring.cloud.consul.discovery.default-query-tag |
Tag to query for in service list if one is not listed in serverListQueryTags. |
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spring.cloud.consul.discovery.default-zone-metadata-name |
zone |
Service instance zone comes from metadata. This allows changing the metadata tag name. |
spring.cloud.consul.discovery.deregister |
true |
Disable automatic de-registration of service in consul. |
spring.cloud.consul.discovery.enable-tag-override |
Enable tag override for the registered service. |
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spring.cloud.consul.discovery.enabled |
true |
Is service discovery enabled? |
spring.cloud.consul.discovery.fail-fast |
true |
Throw exceptions during service registration if true, otherwise, log warnings (defaults to true). |
spring.cloud.consul.discovery.health-check-critical-timeout |
Timeout to deregister services critical for longer than timeout (e.g. 30m). Requires consul version 7.x or higher. |
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spring.cloud.consul.discovery.health-check-headers |
Headers to be applied to the Health Check calls. |
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spring.cloud.consul.discovery.health-check-interval |
10s |
How often to perform the health check (e.g. 10s), defaults to 10s. |
spring.cloud.consul.discovery.health-check-path |
/actuator/health |
Alternate server path to invoke for health checking. |
spring.cloud.consul.discovery.health-check-timeout |
Timeout for health check (e.g. 10s). |
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spring.cloud.consul.discovery.health-check-tls-skip-verify |
Skips certificate verification during service checks if true, otherwise runs certificate verification. |
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spring.cloud.consul.discovery.health-check-url |
Custom health check url to override default. |
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spring.cloud.consul.discovery.heartbeat.enabled |
false |
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spring.cloud.consul.discovery.heartbeat.interval-ratio |
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spring.cloud.consul.discovery.heartbeat.ttl |
30s |
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spring.cloud.consul.discovery.hostname |
Hostname to use when accessing server. |
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spring.cloud.consul.discovery.include-hostname-in-instance-id |
false |
Whether hostname is included into the default instance id when registering service. |
spring.cloud.consul.discovery.instance-group |
Service instance group. |
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spring.cloud.consul.discovery.instance-id |
Unique service instance id. |
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spring.cloud.consul.discovery.instance-zone |
Service instance zone. |
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spring.cloud.consul.discovery.ip-address |
IP address to use when accessing service (must also set preferIpAddress to use). |
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spring.cloud.consul.discovery.lifecycle.enabled |
true |
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spring.cloud.consul.discovery.management-enable-tag-override |
Enable tag override for the registered management service. |
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spring.cloud.consul.discovery.management-metadata |
Metadata to use when registering management service. |
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spring.cloud.consul.discovery.management-port |
Port to register the management service under (defaults to management port). |
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spring.cloud.consul.discovery.management-suffix |
management |
Suffix to use when registering management service. |
spring.cloud.consul.discovery.management-tags |
Tags to use when registering management service. |
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spring.cloud.consul.discovery.metadata |
Metadata to use when registering service. |
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spring.cloud.consul.discovery.order |
0 |
Order of the discovery client used by |
spring.cloud.consul.discovery.port |
Port to register the service under (defaults to listening port). |
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spring.cloud.consul.discovery.prefer-agent-address |
false |
Source of how we will determine the address to use. |
spring.cloud.consul.discovery.prefer-ip-address |
false |
Use ip address rather than hostname during registration. |
spring.cloud.consul.discovery.query-passing |
false |
Add the 'passing` parameter to /v1/health/service/serviceName. This pushes health check passing to the server. |
spring.cloud.consul.discovery.register |
true |
Register as a service in consul. |
spring.cloud.consul.discovery.register-health-check |
true |
Register health check in consul. Useful during development of a service. |
spring.cloud.consul.discovery.scheme |
http |
Whether to register an http or https service. |
spring.cloud.consul.discovery.server-list-query-tags |
Map of serviceId’s → tag to query for in server list. This allows filtering services by a single tag. |
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spring.cloud.consul.discovery.service-name |
Service name. |
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spring.cloud.consul.discovery.tags |
Tags to use when registering service. |
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spring.cloud.consul.enabled |
true |
Is spring cloud consul enabled. |
spring.cloud.consul.host |
localhost |
Consul agent hostname. Defaults to 'localhost'. |
spring.cloud.consul.port |
8500 |
Consul agent port. Defaults to '8500'. |
spring.cloud.consul.retry.enabled |
true |
If consul retry is enabled. |
spring.cloud.consul.retry.initial-interval |
1000 |
Initial retry interval in milliseconds. |
spring.cloud.consul.retry.max-attempts |
6 |
Maximum number of attempts. |
spring.cloud.consul.retry.max-interval |
2000 |
Maximum interval for backoff. |
spring.cloud.consul.retry.multiplier |
1.1 |
Multiplier for next interval. |
spring.cloud.consul.scheme |
Consul agent scheme (HTTP/HTTPS). If there is no scheme in address - client will use HTTP. |
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spring.cloud.consul.service-registry.auto-registration.enabled |
true |
Enables Consul Service Registry Auto-registration. |
spring.cloud.consul.service-registry.enabled |
true |
Enables Consul Service Registry functionality. |
spring.cloud.consul.tls.certificate-password |
Password to open the certificate. |
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spring.cloud.consul.tls.certificate-path |
File path to the certificate. |
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spring.cloud.consul.tls.key-store-instance-type |
Type of key framework to use. |
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spring.cloud.consul.tls.key-store-password |
Password to an external keystore. |
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spring.cloud.consul.tls.key-store-path |
Path to an external keystore. |