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Workspace Cloud Pak for Business Automation
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Created on Nov 21, 2025

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Get BAI to be more flexible in the naming settings

Context and Requirements


Our organization has a convention of exposing all external services on the bdapps.* domain rather than apps.*. On our namespaces, we add the label type=bdapps, which causes the “bdapps” router to be used instead of the default router. This ensures consistency across environments and aligns with internal security and routing policies.

Attempted Experiments
When we ignore this convention (using apps.* and removing the namespace label), everything works as expected with the official Kafka client and Spring applications. However, when we update the Kafka routes to use bdapps.*, the connection fails. Specifically:

  • Clicking the route URL returns a 503 error (instead of the certificate error seen previously).

  • We followed the Strimzi documentation to update the routes using the Kafka CR (Strimzi GenericKafkaListener reference).

  • The BAI team confirmed that all exposed routes must migrate to .bdapps and suggested creating a route in OpenShift. They encountered SSL handshake errors during their own attempt.

  • They noted that the advertisedHost property in Kafka sets the external name of the Kafka listener, which might help make the new routes work. The issue could be related to the TLS certificate presented by Kafka not matching the new domain.

The Ask

Could you investigate whether it is possible to configure CP4BA so that the external route for Kafka uses the bdappsrouter? Ideally, if we could point CP4BA to one of the bdapps routers before installation, the CP4BA operator(s) would retrieve the {router-canonical-name} from the bdapps router, and all routes—including Kafka—would use bdapps.*instead of apps.*.
If this is configurable, please provide guidance on how to achieve it or clarify how the CP4BA operator determines the router-canonical-name.

Idea priority Urgent

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