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In this blog post we want to take a look at how to implement that mechanism inside a Java application. The remainder of the post is structured as follows. First, we will implement our Java application which supports automatic configuration reloading. The following section describes how to deploy it to Kubernetes. We are closing the post by discussing and summarizing the findings. The source code is available on GitHub.
If you need your configuration changes to be rolled out more immediate, there are other options as well. Rather than reading from a properties file, you could use a key-value store such as Consul, etcd, or AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store. While this gives you more direct control of configuration changes, it introduces new challenges. First, managing your configuration as code might require additional tooling, such as defining them as Terraform resources. Additionally, your application will have to know how to speak to the configuration services, including a proper authentication mechanism.
If you need your configuration changes to be rolled out more immediate, there are other options as well. Rather than reading from a properties file, you could use a key-value store such as Consul, etcd, or AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store. While this gives you more direct control of configuration changes, it introduces new challenges. First, managing your configuration as code might require additional tooling, such as defining them as Terraform resources. Additionally, your application will have to know how to speak to the configuration services, including a proper authentication mechanism.