Storing Configuration as File References

Another popular option is git2consul which mirrors the contents of a Git repository to Consul’s Key/Value store.

You can setup a Git repository that contains files like application.yml, hello-world-test.json etc. and the contents of these files are cloned to Consul.

In this case each key in consul represents a file with an extension. For example /config/application.yml and you must configure the FILE format:

application.yml

consul:
    client:
        config:
            format: FILE