It is mentioned in https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/wiki/Spring-Boot-Configuration-Binding#map-based-binding for properties. I found the answer here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34070987/escaping-a-dot-in-a-map-key-in-yaml-in-spring-boot See https://github.com/spring-cloud-incubator/spring-cloud-rsocket/issues/1 for origin. The quote/bracket notation is shown below. ``` spring: cloud: gateway: rsocket: client: forwarding: "[create.reservation.{version}]": service_name: reservation-service canary: false ```