title: Openshift V3: Confusion on Services and Routes
body: <p>I am going through the Openshift V3 documentation and got confused by services and routes details.</p>
  
  <p>The description in <a href="https://docs.openshift.org/latest/architecture/infrastructure_components/kubernetes_infrastructure.html#service-proxy" rel="noreferrer">service</a> says that:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Each node also runs a simple network proxy that reflects the services defined in the API on that node. This allows the node to do simple TCP and UDP stream forwarding across a set of back ends.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>it can forward TCP/UDP stream while description in <a href="https://docs.openshift.org/latest/architecture/core_concepts/routes.html#routers" rel="noreferrer">routes</a> says:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Routers support the following protocols:</p>
    
    <p>HTTP</p>
    
    <p>HTTPS (with SNI)</p>
    
    <p>WebSockets</p>
    
    <p>TLS with SNI</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Basically, my requirement is to run an SIP application which runs over UDP and port 5060. </p>
  
  <p>Please help me understand what is meant by service and route in the above context and can I deploy my application on Openshift V3. I found few related questions but those are fairly old.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong>
  Tagged Kubernetes because it is also used within and may be someone from them can help.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>