Hi, The problem is Ignite cannot find your configuration file.
Ignite tries these 3 steps to find configuration file: 1. Try to resolve it as a URI 2. If previous step fails, try to resolve it as $IGNITE_HOME + <the path you specified> 3. If previous step fails, try to resolve it in CLASSPATH. Thus, you have multiple options to specify config path: 1. Specify an absolute path 2. Pass the config path as a command line parameter 3. Create your path relative to $IGNITE_HOME 4. If you use maven or gradle java plugin, then you can create file under "resources/path-to-ignite-config.xml". On the "process resources" phase maven will copy it under target/classes/path-to-ignite-config.xml" and then it will go into JAR. Your app will find it by "path-to-ignite-config.xml" since it will be in CLASSPATH.