Spring Cloud Config provides support for centralized microservice configuration. It is a combination of two important components:

• Spring Cloud Config Server: Provides support for exposing centralized configuration backed up by a version control repository--GIT or subversion
• Spring Cloud Config Client: Provides support for applications to connect to Spring Cloud Config Server

The following figure shows a typical microservice architecture using Spring Cloud Config. The configuration for multiple microservices is stored in a single GIT repository: