I have a Spring Boot 2.7 Web/MVC server application with profiles for different environments (DEV/QA/PROD). I have a common application.properties with shared configuration and environment specific configuration, for example, JDBC URLs in separate application-<environment>.properties on the classpath.

If the application is started without a profile being selected, it fails with a cryptic error message complaining about a jdbcUrl property missing and not being able to initialize the context – all this within a huge stack trace. This is self-explanatory for the developer, but not trivial for an operations person.

What would be the Spring way of checking if exactly one profile is selected and displaying a non-stacktrace, human (operator) friendly error message?
I am looking for something similar to what is shown if the server port is already in use.
I would like to avoid hacks and find the Spring-endorsed solution for this.