Today I played with routes on IBM Bluemix. Routes are how you access the app on IBM Bluemix so basically they are hostnames mapped to apps. By default apps are assigned a hostname under mybluemix.net but once you’ve proved a domain belongs to you you may also may custom domain names to your apps. Of course you still need to create a CNAME record in DNS to make it map correctly but you get the point. Working with routes is possible from the GUI but the command line interface (CLI) is more efficient. Below are the commands I use to work with routes. All of the commands assumes you’re already logged in… Actual commands in bold.
Listing the routes (as you can see some routes are not bound to apps): cf routes
Getting routes as lekkim ... space host domain apps dev ontime-ibm-connected-2015-verse-demo-contribution mybluemix.net IBM ConnectED 2015 Verse Demo Contribution dev otgc-verse mybluemix.net IBM ConnectED 2015 Verse Demo Contribution dev mikkel-otgcms-test mybluemix.net Mikkel OTGCMS Test dev mikkel-otgcms-test ontimesuite.com Mikkel OTGCMS Test dev neodashboard-oauth mybluemix.net neodashboard-oauth dev spring-boot-demo-mikkel mybluemix.net Spring-Boot-Demo-Mikkel dev engageugdemo mybluemix.net engageugdemo dev engagedemoapp1 mybluemix.net dev engagementdemo1 mybluemix.net dev engageugdemoapp mybluemix.net
Map a route called myapp.ontimesuite.com to the engageugdemo app: cf map-route engageugdemo ontimesuite.com -n myapp
Creating route myapp.ontimesuite.com for org lekkim / space dev as lekkim... OK
Unmap a route called myapp.ontimesuite.com from the engageugdemo app: cf unmap-route engageugdemo ontimesuite.com -n myapp
Removing route myapp.ontimesuite.com from app engageugdemo in org lekkim / space dev as lekkim... OK
Permently delete the myapp.ontimesuite.com route from your account: cf delete-route ontimesuite.com -n myapp
Deleting route engageugdemo.ontimesuite.com... OK
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