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= Exposing the front-end service

[role="_abstract"]
By default, services running on {product-title} are not accessible externally. To expose your service so that external clients can access it, you can create a _route_.

A `Route` object is a {product-title} networking resource similar to a Kubernetes `Ingress` object. The default {product-title} router (HAProxy) uses the HTTP header of the incoming request to determine where to proxy the connection.

Optionally, you can define security, such as TLS, for the route.

.Prerequisites

* You have deployed the `parksmap` front-end application.
* You have `cluster-admin` or project-level `admin` privileges.

.Procedure

* Create a route to expose the `parksmap` front-end application by running the following command:

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$ oc create route edge parksmap --service=parksmap
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.Verification

* Verify that the application route was successfully created by running the following command:
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$ oc get route parksmap
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.Example output
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NAME        HOST/PORT                                                   PATH   SERVICES   PORT       TERMINATION   WILDCARD
parksmap    parksmap-user-getting-started.apps.cluster.example.com             parksmap   8080-tcp   edge          None
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