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Creating a route

The service allows an application to be accessible internally via a consistent address:port pair. To be able to access it from outside of the cluster, we need to make sure that an OpenShift Route is created. Once the route is created, OpenShift will expose the service to the outside world using the cluster's router, implemented via an HAProxy Docker container by default.

Like services, routes can be created in two ways:

• Using oc expose
• From the YAML/JSON definition

This section shows both methods, but it is enough to use only one.

We assume that previously, you created a service named httpd.