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Cloud Foundry for Developers

You're reading from   Cloud Foundry for Developers Deploy, manage, and orchestrate cloud-native applications with ease

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788391443
Length 306 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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David Wu David Wu
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Rick Farmer Rick Farmer
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Rahul Kumar Jain Rahul Kumar Jain
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Cloud Foundry Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Cloud Foundry CLI and Apps Manager 3. Getting Started with PCF Dev 4. Users, Orgs, Spaces, and Roles 5. Architecting and Building Apps for the Cloud 6. Deploying Apps to Cloud Foundry 7. Microservices and Worker Applications 8. Services and Service Brokers 9. Buildpacks 10. Troubleshooting Applications in Cloud Foundry 11. Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

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...

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