We implemented the Spring active profiles in a slightly different way. Let’s say the default properties file, application.yml, contains all default values which is same in both production and development environments.
Create separate properties for production and development files named application-prd.yml and application-dev.yml respectively. These files may contain extra properties or override some of the default properties.
During application startup, we pass the spring.profiles.active as an environment variable. For example,
-Dspring.profiles.active=prd
will pick up application-prd.yml along with application.yml
or
-Dspring.profiles.active=dev
will pick up application-dev.yml along with application.yml