diff --git a/kernel/kernel-config-server/src/main/resources/bootstrap.properties b/kernel/kernel-config-server/src/main/resources/bootstrap.properties
index f559236f40..f870cec7e4 100644
--- a/kernel/kernel-config-server/src/main/resources/bootstrap.properties
+++ b/kernel/kernel-config-server/src/main/resources/bootstrap.properties
@@ -34,18 +34,18 @@ spring.cloud.config.server.accept-empty=true
 #Spring Cloud Config Server makes a clone of the remote git repository and if somehow the local copy gets 
 #dirty (e.g. folder content changes by OS process) so Spring Cloud Config Server cannot update the local copy
 #from remote repository. For Force-pull in such case, we are setting the flag to true.
-spring.cloud.config.server.git.force-pull=false
+spring.cloud.config.server.git.force-pull=true
 
 # Disabling health endpoints to improve performance of config server while in development, can be commented out in production.
 health.config.enabled=false
 
 # Setting up refresh rate to 5 seconds so that config server will check for updates in Git repo after every one minute,
 #can be lowered down for production.
-spring.cloud.config.server.git.refreshRate=0
+spring.cloud.config.server.git.refreshRate=5
 
 
 # adding provision to clone on start of server instead of first request
-spring.cloud.config.server.git.cloneOnStart=false
+spring.cloud.config.server.git.cloneOnStart=true
 
 #For encryption of properties
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