Web service

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 amywhere.

Port

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

Public domain and SSL cert

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

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 usecase.

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.

Logs

Yan 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.