What is the purpose of TIMES_APP_URL?

[biltonbilmes]

Hi Team,

What is the purpose of TIMES_APP_URL environment variable in Guided Exercise: Accessing Containerized Network Services

[student@workstation ~]$ podman run --name cities-app \
--network cities -p 8090:8090 -d \
-e TIMES_APP_URL=http://times-app:8080/times \
registry.ocp4.example.com:8443/redhattraining/podman-info-cities:v0.1

[Chetan_Tiwary_]

Hello @biltonbilmes , thanks for reaching out!

This exercise uses two applications: times and cities. The times application returns the current time of a given city, and the cities application returns information about a specific city.

To fetch the current time of the city, the cities application fetches data from the times application.

Examine the source code of the applications here :  ~/DO188/labs/basics-exposing

[biltonbilmes]

can anyone please help?