Creating Routes for Services

[kadel]

OpenShift can expose Services using Routes.

It would be nice if Kompose created default Routes for some services.

User can specify for which services Route should be created for example like this:

kompose convert --expose-service=<service name>

cc: @kbsingh

[sebgoa]

@kadel sounds good. Only issue will be how to handle this for multiple providers.

i.e for vanilla Kubernetes what will the behavior of this expose-service option ?

If we implement a --provider we could start adding provider specific options...

[kadel]

k8s version of Route would be Ingress object

[dustymabe]

I still like the idea of using labels to express some of this behavior rather than adding a ton of CLI options.

[kadel]

This could be solved in similar way as #154

We decided that we are going to use labels to provide additional information for conversion.

label for this could look something like this <kompose_namespace>.service.expose: foo.bar.example.com
value can be also empty and it would mean that dns name should be constructed automatically by OpenShift.

For Kubernetes same thing should be done, but it will create Ingress object instead of Route.

[kbsingh]

sounds good, and would resolve this issue for me.

[dustymabe]

I believe @containscafeine has volunteered to work on this in the next few weeks. can you assign him on this ?

[dustymabe]

@containscafeine any progress on this?

[concaf]

@dustymabe I've been trying to implement the route API from openshift/origin/pkg/route/api but hitting some issues. I will be away for some time, so I'm updating @surajssd about my progress just in case.

[kadel]

@containscafeine @surajssd If you hit any bumps just ping me I'm happy to help.