July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
11h 34m
English
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Managing routes in OpenShift
OpenShift has an elegant way of exposing a service so that it can be accessed from the outside of an OpenShift cluster. This resource is called a router in OpenShift. OpenShift provides an external hostname mapping to a load balancer that distributes traffic among OpenShift services:
OpenShift router workflow
In order for the OpenShift router to load balance external traffic, it has to use HTTP or HTTPS protocol, and be resolvable by DNS using DNS wildcards.
Let's expose our service outside of the OpenShift cluster by running the oc expose command with additional parameters:
$ oc expose service/ruby-ex-1-zzhrc ...