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Scaling and exposing applications

Scaling and exposing applications

- [Instructor] Suppose you own a coffee shop and you have the best coffee in town, but there are some issues. There is no road leading to your coffee shop so customers have a hard time finding and entering it. Second, you only have one barista working there, leading to long wait times because you cannot serve all customers that fast. In technical terms, you have accessibility and scalability problems. So how can OpenShift help you fix these problems? To fix accessibility, we can expose applications. Exposing an application in OpenShift means making it accessible for other people. Now there are three ways to expose an application. First by creating a cluster IP service, but that will only expose it to the cluster itself, not external parties. Second, by using note port service, which allows that application to be accessed through that port so it provides limited external access, or finally through a route which provides public access. Using a route is the best way to achieve external…

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