Adding a static route on a virtual machine

You can add a static route to the routing table when deploying API Connect on a VMware virtual machine.

About this task

Add commands to your additional cloud-init file. You can do this for the Management, Analytics, and Portal subsystems.

Procedure

  1. Specify an additional cloud-init file: 
    apicup subsys set <subsys> additional-cloud-init-file <path-to-cloud-init-file>
  2. Add lines to your cloud-init file.

    Syntax:

    bootcmd:
 - ip route add <destination>/<mask> via <gateway> dev eth<n>

    Example:

    bootcmd:
 - ip route add 172.27.218.0/24 via 172.27.218.1 dev eth1
 - ip route add 172.26.203.0/24 via 172.27.218.1 dev eth1
  3. Regenerate the ISO file. 
    apicup subsys install <subsys> --out <plan-directory>
  4. Restart the ISO, and ensure that the node(s) have this updated ISO attached at startup.