# Spring Cloud Config

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/spring-cloud-config/  
**Website:** https://spring.io/projects/spring-cloud-config  
**APIs profiled:** 4

Spring Cloud Config provides server-side and client-side support for externalized configuration in a distributed system. It offers a central place to manage external properties for applications across all environments, backed by Git, SVN, or filesystem repositories with support for encryption, decryption, and runtime refresh.

## Kin Score — 40.5 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-24 under rubric 0.12.1. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 40.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 72.2 |
| Contract Quality | 64.3 |
| Governance | 28.8 |
| Contract Governance | 28.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 35.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (4)

- **Spring Cloud Config Configuration API** — Fetch application configuration
- **Spring Cloud Config Encryption API** — Encrypt and decrypt configuration values
- **Spring Cloud Config Monitoring API** — Webhook and monitoring endpoints
- **Spring Cloud Config Resources API** — Fetch resource files from the config repository

## Agentic access (1)

- **Spring Cloud Config Agentic Access** — 13 operations · 3 acting

## Security (3)

- **Spring Cloud Config Authentication** — http · 2 schemes
- **Spring Cloud Config Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Spring Cloud Config Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Spring Cloud Config Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Configuration Management, Distributed Systems, Externalized Configuration, Git, Java, Microservices, Spring, Spring Cloud

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/spring-cloud-config/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.