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[id="microshift-understanding-and-configuring-router"]
= Understanding and configuring the router
include::_attributes/attributes-microshift.adoc[]
:context: microshift-nw-router

toc::[]

[role="_abstract"]
To control how external traffic reaches your applications and limit ingress exposure in {microshift-short}, you can configure router listen addresses, ports, IP bindings, and route admission policy.

include::modules/microshift-nw-router-con.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

include::modules/microshift-router-csettings.adoc[leveloffset=+2]

include::modules/microshift-nw-router-disable.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

include::modules/microshift-configuring-router-ingress.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

include::modules/microshift-nw-router-config-ports.adoc[leveloffset=+2]

include::modules/microshift-nw-router-config-ip-address.adoc[leveloffset=+2]

[id="additional-resources_microshift-understanding-and-configuring-router_{context}"]
[role="_additional-resources"]
== Additional resources

* xref:../microshift_configuring/microshift-default-config-yaml.adoc#microshift-default-config-yaml[About the default {microshift-short} configuration file]
* xref:../microshift_networking/microshift_network_policy/microshift-network-policy-index.adoc#microshift-network-policies[About network policies]

include::modules/microshift-nw-config-route-admission.adoc[leveloffset=+1]
