Spring Boot Profiles, Overriding Properties, and spring.profiles.include


June 20th 2020


I've been using Spring Boot for a while now, and I can't believe I didn't realize this behavior with properties and profiles before. Given an application.yml like this:


test: X

---
spring:
  profiles: a

test: A

---
spring:
  profiles: b
  profiles.include: a

test: B

Obviously if running with the "a" profile, the property test will be "A". But what happens when running with the "b" profile?


java -Dspring.profiles.active=b test.jar

The answer is again "a". In other words, when you include another profile, it overrides any properties from it over top of the active one. I always assumed that it would be the other way around, but that's not the case.


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