All of the features described earlier in this guide work equally well, regardless of whether your application is running inside Kubernetes. This is really helpful for development and troubleshooting. From a development point of view, this lets you start your Spring Boot application and debug one of the modules that is part of this project. You need not deploy it in Kubernetes, as the code of the project relies on the Fabric8 Kubernetes Java client, which is a fluent DSL that can communicate by using http protocol to the REST API of the Kubernetes Server.spring-doc.cn

To disable the integration with Kubernetes you can set spring.cloud.kubernetes.enabled to false. Please be aware that when spring-cloud-kubernetes-config is on the classpath, spring.cloud.kubernetes.enabled should be set in bootstrap.{properties|yml} (or the profile specific one), otherwise it should be in application.{properties|yml} (or the profile specific one). Because of the way we set up a specific EnvironmentPostProcessor in spring-cloud-kubernetes-config, you also need to disable that processor via a system property (or an environment variable), for example you could start your application via -DSPRING_CLOUD_KUBERNETES_ENABLED=false (any form of relaxed binding will work too). Also note that these properties: spring.cloud.kubernetes.config.enabled and spring.cloud.kubernetes.secrets.enabled only take effect when set in bootstrap.{properties|yml}spring-doc.cn