Containers Overview
Containers are a way to package together your application along with it's dependencies, and run in a resource isolated process. They provide consistency across different hosts, efficiency over traditional hosting methods, and facilitate a micro-service based approach, where each logical piece of your application is split into multiple, easily testable parts (such as API, Backend, Frontend, etc).
The Containers & Container Dashboard
The containers dashboard shows all containers for an environment and information about the state they are in.
- The containers tab is available once a user has entered any environment, by means of the horizontal navigation.
- Most information on this page is obvious, but these icons represent the state setting for the container row. The gears represent stateless, while the server represents stateful.
- Filter the containers shown by their state.
By clicking on the name of any given container a modal will open showing a new full menu for the given container. We call this initial page you'll land on, the container dashboard.
Other menus available in this modal are:
- Instances - with instance level information.
- Config - where a user can change the configuration settings for the container.
- Volumes - for containers with volumes attached, where settings can be updated and applied.
- Backups - for stateful containers with backups enabled, where backups can be viewed and restored.
- Settings - where containers settings can be updated and applied.
Visit this guide for more information on deploying a container.
If you have questions on converting to containers, or would like some help getting an application containerized, reach out to our support team on Slack. We're happy to help!