Overriding configuration in profile specific files d... | spring-cloud/spring-cloud-vault

I'm trying to integrate my Spring Boot app with Vault for loading secrets. The app runs on PCF environment so the main configuration file (application.properties) is configured appropriately. For local development, the vault authentication is done via a regular token. So I have created application-local.properties file with appropriate configuration for local development. Then I set the "Active Profiles" value to "local" under the run/debug configuration.

Problem is that when I try to start the app in IDEA, I get the following error. So it's clear that the vault related properties mentioned in application-local.properties are not being picked up during startup.


23:32:40.289 [main] ERROR org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication - Application run failed
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal character in path at index 1: ${VAULT_ADDR}
    at java.base/java.net.URI.create(URI.java:906)
    at org.springframework.cloud.vault.config.VaultConfiguration.createVaultEndpoint(VaultConfiguration.java:121)
    at org.springframework.cloud.vault.config.VaultConfigDataLoader$ImperativeInfrastructure.<init>(VaultConfigDataLoader.java:445)
    at org.springframework.cloud.vault.config.VaultConfigDataLoader.registerImperativeInfrastructure(VaultConfigDataLoader.java:177)

Here is the complete pom and main application.properties and application-local.properties files.

I have generated the deployment artifact using command mvn clean install and then tried to run the app using java -jar demo-0.0.0.1-snapshot.jar -Dspring.profiles.active=local.

Since I'm passing the profile, I was expecting that configuration from the application-local.properties file will be picked up but from the stacktrace it seems like the main configuration file is being read.

pom.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
	<parent>
		<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
		<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
		<version>2.7.14</version>
		<relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
	</parent>
	<groupId>com.example</groupId>
	<artifactId>demo</artifactId>
	<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
	<name>demo</name>
	<description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>
	<properties>
		<java.version>17</java.version>
		<spring-cloud.version>2021.0.8</spring-cloud.version>
	</properties>
	<dependencies>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
			<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-webflux</artifactId>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
			<artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-vault-config</artifactId>
		</dependency>

		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
			<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
			<scope>test</scope>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>io.projectreactor</groupId>
			<artifactId>reactor-test</artifactId>
			<scope>test</scope>
		</dependency>
	</dependencies>
	<dependencyManagement>
		<dependencies>
			<dependency>
				<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
				<artifactId>spring-cloud-dependencies</artifactId>
				<version>${spring-cloud.version}</version>
				<type>pom</type>
				<scope>import</scope>
			</dependency>
		</dependencies>
	</dependencyManagement>

	<build>
		<plugins>
			<plugin>
				<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
				<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
			</plugin>
		</plugins>
	</build>

</project>

application-local.properties

spring.application.name=sbvaultapp
spring.main.allow-bean-definition-overriding=true
spring.main.web-application-type= reactive
spring.main.lazy-initialization= false
spring.profiles.group.dev=cloud
spring.profiles.group.qa=cloud
spring.profiles.group.uat=cloud
spring.profiles.group.prod=cloud
spring.config.import=optional:vault://
spring.cloud.vault.enabled=true
spring.cloud.vault.reactive.enabled=true
spring.cloud.vault.authentication= PCF
spring.cloud.vault.uri= ${VAULT_ADDR}
spring.cloud.vault.namespace= ${VAULT_NAMESPACE}
spring.cloud.vault.pcf.role= ${VAULT_CF_ROLE}
spring.cloud.vault.pcf.pcf-path= ${VAULT_CF_PATH}
spring.cloud.vault.kv.enabled= true
spring.cloud.vault.kv.backend= kv
spring.cloud.vault.kv.default-context=${spring.application.name}

application-local.properties

spring.application.name=sbvaultapp
spring.main.allow-bean-definition-overriding=true
spring.main.web-application-type= reactive
spring.main.lazy-initialization= false
spring.profiles.group.dev=cloud
spring.profiles.group.qa=cloud
spring.profiles.group.uat=cloud
spring.profiles.group.prod=cloud
spring.config.import=optional:vault://
spring.cloud.vault.enabled=true
spring.cloud.vault.reactive.enabled=true
spring.cloud.vault.authentication= token
spring.cloud.vault.token='Xxxxxxxxx'
spring.cloud.vault.uri= 'https://vault.myvault.org:8200'
spring.cloud.vault.namespace= 'apps'
spring.cloud.vault.scheme=https
spring.cloud.vault.kv.enabled= true
spring.cloud.vault.kv.backend= kv
spring.cloud.vault.kv.default-context=${spring.application.name}
spring.cloud.vault.kv.profiles=dev

Overriding configuration in profile specific files does not seem to work

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