Spring Boot 2 - enable colors in application console (output logs)

In this short article, we would liek to show how to enable colors in output logs in Spring Boot 2 application.

Quick solutions:

1. add spring.output.ansi.enabled=ALWAYS line to application.properties file,
    
2. add --spring.output.ansi.enabled=ALWAYS option to java command,
   e.g.  java -jar app.jar --spring.output.ansi.enabled=ALWAYS

Practical example

Simple steps:

1. open src/main/resources/application.properties file,

2. update the file adding the line:

# ...

spring.output.ansi.enabled=ALWAYS

# ...

Note: possible values are: ALWAYS, DETECT and NEVER.

References

1. https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.7.9/api/