Preface
This tutorial describes how to connect a local backend service on a local machine with a frontend service running on a OpenShift cluster.
In this tutorial, the services are the same as used in Creating a service network with OpenShift, however you run the backend service locally and expose the service on the service network using the skupper command-line interface (CLI).
Prerequisites
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Access to a projects in a OpenShift cluster,
cluster-adminaccess is not required. - Python on your local machine.
This tutorial shows how to connect the following:
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west- a namespace in an accessible OpenShift cluster running the frontend service. -
hello-world-backend- a Python service running on a local machine.
Note
Although this tutorial demonstrates exposing a Python service on the service network, a more typical use case would involve a database service, for example, MySQL.