If you are not familiar with the oc command, refer to OpenShift - Getting Started with the oc command.

• Using an OpenShift route (this is the most common)
• Using an ingress route
• Using a load balancer service
• Assign an external IP address to a service

A service can be used to load balance requests across pods.

The oc create service command can be used to create these type of services.

• clusterip
• externalname
• loadbalancer
• nodeport

In this example, a load balancer service named lb-service is created.

~]$ oc create service loadbalancer lb-service --tcp=8080
service/lb-service created

The oc get services command should show the service has been created. In this example that the service is listening on port 8080.

~]$ oc get services
NAME         TYPE           CLUSTER-IP       EXTERNAL-IP                            PORT(S)          AGE
lb-service   LoadBalancer   10.14.52.14      <pending>                              8080:30632/TCP   51s