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Application

The applications.applicationconnector.kyma-project.io CustomResourceDefinition (CRD) is a detailed description of the kind of data and the format used to register an Application in Kyma. The Application custom resource (CR) defines the APIs that the Application offers. To get the up-to-date CRD and show the output in the YAML format, run this command:

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kubectl get crd applications.applicationconnector.kyma-project.io -o yaml

Sample custom resource

This is a sample resource that registers the system-prod Application which offers one service.

NOTE: The name of the Application must consist of lower case alphanumeric characters, - or ., and start and end with an alphanumeric character.

NOTE: In case the Application name contains - or ., the underlying Eventing services uses a clean name with alphanumeric characters only. (For example, system-prod becomes systemprod).
This could lead to a naming collision. For example, both system-prod and systemprod become systemprod.
A solution for this is to provide an application-type label (with alphanumeric characters only) which is then used by the Eventing services instead of the Application name. If the application-type label also contains - or ., the underlying Eventing services clean it and use the cleaned label.

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apiVersion: applicationconnector.kyma-project.io/v1alpha1
kind: Application
metadata:
  name: system-prod
spec:
  description: This is the system-production Application.
  labels:
    region: us
    kind: production

Custom resource parameters

This table lists all the possible parameters of a given resource together with their descriptions:

Parameter	Required	Description
metadata.name	Yes	Specifies the name of the CR.
spec.description	No	Describes the connected Application.
spec.skipVerify	No	Determines whether to skip TLS certificate verification for the Application.
spec.labels	No	Defines the labels of the Application.
spec.services	No	Contains all services that the Application provides.
spec.services.id	Yes	Identifies the service that the Application provides.
spec.services.identifier	No	Represents an additional identifier unique in the Application scope. Allows the external system to provide its own identifier.
spec.services.name	No	Represents a unique name of the service. Used for proxying in Application Gateway.
spec.services.providerDisplayName	Yes	Specifies a human-readable name of the Application service provider. In the Compass mode, it's provided by Runtime Agent. In the standalone mode, you have to provide it yourself.
spec.services.tags	No	Specifies additional tags used for better documentation of the available APIs. In the Compass mode, it's provided by Runtime Agent. In the standalone mode, you have to provide it yourself.
spec.services.labels	No	Specifies additional labels for the service offered by the Application. In the Compass mode, it's provided by Runtime Agent. In the standalone mode, you have to provide it yourself.
spec.services.entries	Yes	Contains the information about the APIs and events that the service offered by the Application provides. In the Compass mode, it's provided by Runtime Agent. In the standalone mode, you have to provide it yourself.
spec.services.entries.type	Yes	Specifies the entry type: `API` or `Events`. In the Compass mode, it's provided by Runtime Agent. In the standalone mode, you have to provide it yourself.
spec.services.entries.centralGatewayUrl	No	Specifies the URL of Application Gateway. Internal address resolvable only within the cluster. This field is required for the API entry type. In the Compass mode, it's provided by Runtime Agent. In the standalone mode, you have to provide it yourself.
spec.services.entries.accessLabel	No	Specifies the label used in Istio rules in Application Connector. This field is required for the API entry type.
spec.services.entries.targetUrl	No	Specifies the URL of a given API. This field is required for the API entry type. In the Compass mode, it's provided by Runtime Agent. In the standalone mode, you have to provide it yourself.
spec.services.entries.oauthUrl	No	Specifies the URL used to authorize with a given API. This field is required for the API entry type. In the Compass mode, it's provided by Runtime Agent. In the standalone mode, you have to provide it yourself.
spec.services.entries.credentialsSecretName	No	Specifies the name of the Secret which allows you to call a given API. This field is required if spec.services.entries.oauthUrl is specified. In the Compass mode, it's provided by Runtime Agent. In the standalone mode, you have to provide it yourself.

These components use this CR:

Component	Description
Application Gateway	Reads the API metadata in order to connect to the external system.
Application Connectivity Validator (in the Compass mode)	Validates requests and events from the external system against the respective Application CR.
Runtime Agent (in the Compass mode)	Saves the metadata of the connected external system in the Application CR, synchronizes the metadata stored in Compass with the state in the cluster stored in the Application CR.

Application

Sample custom resource

Custom resource parameters

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