Spring boot + postgres (Remotely)

build.gradle

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
    
    dependencies {
        classpath 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:1.5.1.RELEASE'
    }
}

apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'eclipse'
apply plugin: 'idea'
apply plugin: 'spring-boot'
apply plugin: 'war'

sourceCompatibility = 1.8
targetCompatibility = 1.8

war {
    baseName = 'spring-example'
    version =  '0.1.0'
}

repositories {
    jcenter()    
    maven { url "http://repo.spring.io/libs-snapshot" }
}

configurations {
    providedRuntime
    compile.exclude group:'ch.qos.logback'
}

// In this section you declare the dependencies for your production and test code
dependencies {
    
    compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter") 
    compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web")
    providedRuntime 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-tomcat'
    compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-jpa") 
	  compile group: 'org.postgresql', name: 'postgresql', version: '9.4-1200-jdbc41'
}

task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {
    gradleVersion = '2.3'
}

DatabaseConfig.java

@Configuration
@PropertySource({ "classpath:persistence.properties" })
public class DatabaseConfig {
    @Bean
    @Primary
    @ConfigurationProperties(prefix = "spring.datasource")
    public DataSource dataSource() {
        return DataSourceBuilder.create().build();
    }
}

MyApplication.java

@SpringBootApplication
@ComponentScan
public class MyApplication extends SpringBootServletInitializer {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(MyApplication.class, args);
    }
    
    @Override
    protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure(SpringApplicationBuilder application) {
	return application.sources(MyApplication.class);
    }
}

persistence.properties

spring.jpa.database=POSTGRESQL
spring.datasource.platform=postgres
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:postgresql://yourhost:5432/databaseName?ssl=true&sslfactory=org.postgresql.ssl.NonValidatingFactory
spring.datasource.username=""
spring.datasource.password=""
spring.datasource.driver-class-name=org.postgresql.Driver
spring.datasource.testWhileIdle=true
spring.datasource.validationQuery=SELECT 1
spring.jpa.show-sql=true
spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=create-drop
spring.jpa.hibernate.naming-strategy=org.hibernate.cfg.ImprovedNamingStrategy
spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect

hey, what if I don't want ssl? what should i specify in spring.datasource.url ? Thanks :)

@maslick Something like this. spring.datasource.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/postgres?useSSL=false

any idea where the ssl certs will be picked up from if we set ssl=true in the datasource url?