User Guide
Effortless Application Configuration with MicroProfile Config

MicroProfile is a community driven initiative, built on top of the Jakarta EE Core Profile, that is a collection of abstract specs that form a complete solution to developing cloud native, Jakarta EE microservices.
The MicroProfile Config API is one of these key specifications for microservices, and is designed to give you, the developer, a way to define different configuration values for different application stages without having to repackage and re-deploy your application.
In this guide, you will learn how to incorporate the Config API into your application and use it to externalize dynamic application configuration values.
We cover:
- Dynamic Config Values
- What is MicroProfile Config?
- The Config Source
- Ordinal Values
- Payara Built in Config Sources
- Custom Config Sources
- Converter
- Config Value
Category: User Guide