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Manage containers

After creating the container, you can view and update its configuration in the Customer Portal on the Containers page:

Containers page

Click a container name to open its settings. Alternatively, click the three dot-icon next to it and then select Edit.

Edit container menu

Container statuses

A container can have the following statuses:

  • Deploying: The initial setup was successful, and the container works appropriately.
  • Pending: The required resources have been successfully created, but the container hasn’t been scheduled to a node yet.
  • Ready: The container is up and running.
  • Disabled: You manually disabled the container in settings.
  • Error: There were issues with the image of your container in its initial configuration and as a result, the container didn’t work.

Container settings

To start or stop the container, open the container settings and disable or enable the Started toggle accordingly:

Started toggle enabled

Overview

The Overview tab in container settings features the following details: container status, endpoint, description (if you added one during creation), and date of creation. After you create a container, you can’t change this information.

Image & port

On the Image & Port tab, you can add a container startup command, as well as update port and protocol used to connect to the container. You can change these settings at any time.

Image & port tab

Container configuration

View and adjust the number of MiB of memory, allocated mCPU, as well as autoscaling limits and triggers. For a detailed overview of these settings, check out the the relevant steps in the Create a container guide.

Container configuration tab

API key authentication

If you want to configure authentication to the container via API or update your API keys, you can do so on this tab.

Turn on the Enable API Key authentication toggle and then add or update keys as needed.

API key authentication tab

Settings

The Settings tab lets you configure environment variables and set the duration the container will continue running without receiving any requests before it’s automatically deleted.

Settings tab

Logs

View the aggregated log data about requests to all running containers. Note that when you delete a container, logs are also deleted.

Logs entities are shown in the following format:

Container name_Date_Date  
IP_Method_Endpoint_HTTP type_ Resonse code_Monitoring technology name
Example of the logs

Logging

Activate the Logging service to store your logs. To learn how it works and how to configure it, refer to the article about Logging.

Logging tab

Delete

If you no longer need the container, click the Delete container button and then confirm your action by typing Delete.

Both the container and its logs will be permanently removed.

Container deletion

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