External App Interaction
Overview
Product teams can interact with their app externally, add more functionality to the app's saving state, and control service exposure. Users are shown how to navigate various aspects of this using the provided diagrams, FAQs, and links.
Diagrams
To better understand how to interact with an external app, refer to the diagrams provided in the following:
External Endpoint Diagram
Ingress Gateway Diagram
FAQs
What is a virtual service?
A virtual service is what defines traffic routing rules and then applies them to the addressed host. Routing rules define the matching criteria for traffic of the protocol. Once matched, it is sent to a destination service in the registry.
What are external endpoints?
External endpoints are API routes added to the end of a user's application's URL, such as https://myapp.staging.dso.mil/api/ or https://myapp.staging.dso.mil/backend/. These endpoints can be made reachable from the internet and have the traffic routed to specific services in a user's project.
What is the saving state?
Typically, this means visiting a website more than once and having it remember the user, but for external app interaction, this refers to the ability to interact with a database (of the app) as needed.
Related Content and References
For more on how customers can understand the external use of their apps, use the links provided in the following sections.