About configuring the router

To make ingress optional, you can configure MicroShift ingress router settings to manage which ports, if any, are exposed to network traffic. Specified routing is an example of ingress load balancing.

  • The default ingress router is always on, running on all IP addresses on the http: 80 and https: 443 ports.

  • Default router settings allow access to any namespace.

Some applications running on top of MicroShift might not require the default router and instead create their own. You can configure the router to control both ingress and namespace access.

Tip

You can check for the presence of the default router in your MicroShift installation before you begin configurations by using the oc get deployment -n openshift-ingress command, which returns the following output:

NAME             READY   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
router-default   1/1     1            1           2d23h