How to change Spring's Boot default startup ASCII message
problem
You wish to change the default banner – logo of Spring Boot. The default one at the time of writing this post looks like this:
SOLUTION 1 - ASCII
Create a text based banner (ASCII) and place it in the classpath with a file title: banner.txt
banner.txt
.----------------. .----------------. .----------------.
| .--------------. || .--------------. || .--------------. |
| | _____ | || | ____ | || | _____ | |
| | |_ _| | || | .' `. | || | |_ _| | |
| | | | | || | / .--. \ | || | | | | |
| | | | _ | || | | | | | | || | | | _ | |
| | _| |__/ | | || | \ `--' / | || | _| |__/ | | |
| | |________| | || | `.____.' | || | |________| | |
| | | || | | || | | |
| '--------------' || '--------------' || '--------------' |
'----------------' '----------------' '----------------'
The file can be placed in the resources folder if you’re using Maven project structure:
output
The ASCII text is shown, lol.
SOLUTION 2 - IMAGE
You can also place banner.jpg, banner.png, banner.gif and Spring will convert it into ASCII (if possible)
conclusion
In this post we saw how to change the default Spring’s Boot banner by placing a banner.txt file in the classpath.
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