How do I activate a Spring Boot profile when running from IntelliJ?

Question

I have 5 environments:

 - local (my development machine)
 - dev
 - qc
 - uat
 - live
 - staging

I want different application properties to be used for each environment, so I have the following properties files each which have a different URL for the datasource:

 - application.properties  (containing common properties)
 - application-local.properties
 - application-dev.properties
 - application-qc.properties
 - application-uat.properties
 - application-live.properties

I am using IntelliJ and running my app using bootRun in the Gradle plugin on my local machine. I will be using deploying the same application war file on all other environments which run Tomcat.

I have tried adding:

--spring.profiles.active=local

to the run configuration under script parameters.

I have tried adding

-Dspring.profiles.active=local

to the run configuration under VM options.

Neither work. I keep seeing the INFO message on startup say: No active profile set, falling back to default profiles: default

If I run my app from the windows command line using

gradle bootRun

but I first set the environment variable

set SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE=local

Then everything works.

So my question is, how do I activate my local spring boot profile when running bootRun from IntelliJ ?

Answer 1

I added -Dspring.profiles.active=test to VM Options and then re-ran that configuration. It worked perfectly.

This can be set by

• Choosing Run | Edit Configurations...
• Go to the Configuration tab
• Expand the Environment section to reveal VM options