Setting the default active profile in Spring-boot

I want my default active profile to be production if -Dspring.profiles.active is not set.

I tried the following in my application.properties but it did't work:

spring.profiles.default=production

Spring-boot version = 1.3.5.RELEASE

Solution 1:

What you are doing here is setting the default default profile (the profile that is used on any bean if you don't specify the @Profile annotation) to be production.

What you actually need to do is set the default active profile, which is done like this:

spring.profiles.active=production

Solution 2:

add --spring.profiles.active=production

Example:

java -jar file.jar --spring.profiles.active=production

Solution 3:

We to faced similar issue while setting spring.profiles.active in java.

This is what we figured out in the end, after trying four different ways of providing spring.profiles.active.

In java-8

$ java --spring.profiles.active=dev -jar my-service.jar
Gives unrecognized --spring.profiles.active option.

$ java -jar my-service.jar --spring.profiles.active=dev
# This works fine

$ java -Dspring.profiles.active=dev -jar my-service.jar
# This works fine

$ java -jar my-service.jar -Dspring.profiles.active=dev
# This doesn't works

In java-11

$ java --spring.profiles.active=dev -jar my-service.jar
Gives unrecognized --spring.profiles.active option.

$ java -jar my-service.jar --spring.profiles.active=dev
# This doesn't works

$ java -Dspring.profiles.active=dev -jar my-service.jar
# This works fine

$ java -jar my-service.jar -Dspring.profiles.active=dev
# This doesn't works

NOTE: If you're specifying spring.profiles.active in your application.properties file then make sure you provide spring.config.location or spring.config.additional-location option to java accordingly as mentioned above.

Solution 4:

If you're using maven I would do something like this:

Being production your default profile:

<properties>
    <activeProfile>production</activeProfile>
</properties>

And as an example of other profiles:

<profiles>
    <!--Your default profile... selected if none specified-->
    <profile>
        <id>production</id>
        <activation>
            <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
        </activation>
        <properties>
            <activeProfile>production</activeProfile>
        </properties>
    </profile>

    <!--Profile 2-->
    <profile>
        <id>development</id>
        <properties>
            <activeProfile>development</activeProfile>
        </properties>
    </profile>

    <!--Profile 3-->
    <profile>
        <id>otherprofile</id>
        <properties>
            <activeProfile>otherprofile</activeProfile>
        </properties>
    </profile>
<profiles>

In your application.properties you'll have to set:

spring.profiles.active=@activeProfile@

This works for me every time, hope it solves your problem.