Expose the route

In this section, you will be learning how to expose an insecure route.

• View information about the service

oc get svc myguestbook

• Notice that the application isn't accessible externally, we have only exposed the deployment internally, to make it externally accessible use the following command

oc expose svc myguestbook

• Now to get the route using the following command

oc get routes

• copy and paste the link in your browser, you will be redirected to a web page like the following screenshot. Notice that the webpage is not secure because we haven't used any type of encryption yet.

• Since you will be using the same application to create an edge route, make sure to delete the route before moving to the next step

oc delete route myguestbook