Cloud Foundry for Developers

Creating HTTP routes with the hostname option

Let's first create a route with the hostname, superRoute, for our development space at the domain local.pcfdev.io: 

Figure 32: Creating the HTTP route superRoute.local.pcfdev.io

From the preceding figure, you will notice that we create a route named superRoute without requiring an application called superRoute. This is in contrary to the general case where the application name serves as the hostname. This has some very important use cases, one of which is blue-green deployments, which we'll discuss later in this book in Chapter 11, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment, under the section ...