Route services
We've visited the concepts of services, user-provided services, and custom service brokers. What if there was a requirement to provide services to applications on the basis of incoming traffic to that application? That is, provide some processing/analysis and action on incoming request traffic for a given application, before it reaches the application. This is what route services provide. Route services can be instantiated through service brokers in the marketplace or through user-provided route services. We'll explore these in detail in this section. Alternatively, this could be done in a microservice fashion using a service registry to perform container-to-container networking. However, this would not be in the form of a service that is using the service capabilities of Cloud Foundry.
Enabling route services
In order to use route services, the platform operator must update the cf-release manifest with an appropriate passphrase and additional configurations relating to enabling...