= Spring Cloud Config

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== Features

Spring Cloud Config Server features:

* HTTP, resource-based API for external configuration (name-value pairs, or equivalent YAML content)
* Encrypt and decrypt property values (symmetric or asymmetric)

Config Client features (for Spring applications):

* Bind to Config Server and initialize Spring `Environment` with remote property sources
* Encrypt and decrypt property values (symmetric or asymmetric)
* `@RefreshScope` for Spring `@Beans` that want to be re-initialized when configuration changes
* Management endpoints:
** `/env/` for updating `Environment` and rebinding `@ConfigurationProperties`
** `/refresh` for refreshing the `@RefreshScope` beans
** `/restart` for restarting the Spring context (disabled by default)
** `/pause` and `/resume` for calling the `Lifecycle` methods (`stop()` and `start()` on the `ApplicationContext`)
* Bootstrap appplication context: a parent context for the main application that can be trained to do anything (by default it binds to the Config Server, and decrypts property values)

== Quick Start

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