text: **Creating a route to balance the network traffic between the two**
  **NGINX instances**
  
  Complete the following steps: 
  
  1. Modify the /etc/hosts file of your OpenShift system to include the entry IP_ADDRESS with 
  an alias of app2-http-git (the hostname of the service), as shown in Example B-14. 
  
  Example B-14 Modifying the /etc/hosts file 
  
  $ tail /etc/hosts 
  129.40.253.20 app2-http-git 
  
  2. From the web console, Application Console view (as shown in Figure B-23), select 
  **Applications**→**Routes**. 