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Container View

The Container view shows all containers on a device. Use it for day‑to‑day operations, break‑fix, and verification after deployments.

Table and columns

  • Columns (typical):
    • Name: Container name. Click to open quick actions.
    • Image: Tag or digest. Hover to see full reference; click Inspect for digest.
    • State/Health: running, exited, restarting; health: healthy, unhealthy, starting.
    • CPU/MEM: Live usage where available.
    • Ports: Host→Container mappings (e.g., 0.0.0.0:8080→8080/tcp).
    • Uptime/Created: How long it has been running or since created.
    • Node/Device: Shows the device name.

Common actions

  • Start/Stop/Restart: Control lifecycle quickly; use Restart to pick up environment changes applied outside templates.
  • Logs: Stream live logs, search logs and navigate seach results.
  • Exec/Terminal: Open a shell inside the container with TTY.
  • Inspect: View environment, mounts, ports, image digest, health status, and restart policy.
  • Recreate/Update: Pull the specified tag/digest and recreate the container preserving volumes and ports.
  • Remove: Stop and delete a container (data in named volumes remains unless volumes are removed separately).

Bulk actions

  • Select multiple containers to Stop/Start/Restart in bulk.

Advanced options

  • Pull policy: Choose to always pull before recreate, or only if missing.
  • Restart policy: Set on-failure/always/unless-stopped depending on workload tolerance.
  • Resource limits: CPU shares/quotas and memory limits can be inspected; change via Template for consistency.
  • Port conflicts: If a requested host port is in use, the action will fail. Change the port variable in the Template and redeploy.
  • Image provenance: Prefer digest pins (image@sha256:...) for critical services to ensure exact versions.

Tips

  • Use registries with read-only credentials for pulls.
  • Prefer Templates for repeatable deployments; use direct container actions for break‑fix tasks.
  • After a recreate, verify the running image digest in Inspect to confirm the update.