Openshift Routes

Configuring the gateway timeout

Long-running functions that return a response from a web-app to a client are generally not recommended¹. However, in some cases this might prove necessary.

To do so in Openshift, locate the app's Routes (e.g. for CertHelper those are here). To set the haproxy's (which handles the routing) timeout, add an annotation to the Route:

1. Click on Edit annotations:

   

2. Add a new key named haproxy.router.openshift.io/timeout with value the required timeout in either seconds or minutes, e.g. 5m:

   

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1. If a server takes too long to respond, this usually raises a 504 HTTP error. ↩