A web service is a service that you want to expose to the public internet, using a public domain and SSL cert. Your users can interact with this service from anywhere.

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Port

When you create a service, you must provide port number where your Dockerfile exposes the running code.

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Public domain and SSL cert

A public domain will be assigned by LocalOps by default. And an auto-renewing SSL cert will be provisioned for the domain. You can setup a custom domain for the service to suit your brand.

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Number of replicas

For redundancy, ensure you set at least 2 as the number of replicas. This is a best practice yet you can enter 1 if it better suits your use case.

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No downtime deployments

All deployments are no-downtime deployments. When LocalOps deploys your code, it brings up new containers with new code first. If they become healthy, old containers will be stopped.

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Logs

You can see logs of running containers via the in-built Grafana dashboard. Navigate to Monitor tab to login to Grafana dashboard. Within Grafana dashboard, filter to see app-services namespace logs. You can create any number of publicly facing web services. All of the above will be applicable for each of them.