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+    <h1>Spring Cloud Config Server</h1>
+    <p> The Spring Cloud Config Server provides an HTTP resource-based API for external yaml configuration for all the Spring Petclinic microservices</p>
+    <ul>
+        <li>See the <a href="https://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-config/">Spring Cloud Config Server reference manual</a> for the REST API</li>
+        <li><a href="/application-default.yml">Common microservices configuration</a></li>
+        <li><a href="http://localhost:8888/vets-service-docker.yml">Configuration of the vets service deployed on a Docker container</a></li>
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