There are multiple ways to configure Spring profile in tomcat. Let’s see here.

How to Configure Spring Profile in Tomcat:

If you are running the application in your local, you can set the active profile using -Dspring-boot.run.profiles=test/dev/prod property as a parameter to your maven or Gradle run command.
Example:

#maven 
mvnw spring-boot:run -Dspring-boot.run.profiles=dev
#Gradle
gradlew bootRun -Dspring-boot.run.profiles=dev

Eclipse Tomcat:

To configure the same in Eclipse tomcat, select Run -> Run Configurations and choose your Tomcat run configuration. Click the Arguments tab and add -Dspring.profiles.active=dev at the end of VM arguments.

External Tomcat:

Again you can have multiple options here to configure Spring profile in tomcat in the external config, the most prominent way is to set the profile in catalina.properties.

catalina.properties

Add profile in catalina.properties file by omitting -D

/tomcat/conf/catalina.properties
spring.profiles.active=dev

Run the tomcat:

/tomcat/bin/startup.sh
./startup.sh

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2020-05-05 08:02:13.992  INFO 192322 --- [           main] c.s.SampleApplication             : Starting SampleApplication v0.0.1-SNAPSHOT on localhost.localdomain with PID 192322 (/opt/cgoka/tomcat/webapps/sample_application/WEB-INF/classes started by root in /root)
2020-05-05 08:02:13.996  INFO 192322 --- [           main] c.s.SampleApplication             : The following profiles are active: dev

Now you can see the log message “The following profiles are active: dev” like above.

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Happy Learning 🙂