Setting Up Services

How to set up Services, and more about images.

• How to Set Up Services
  • Name Your Service
  • Specify a Service Image
  • Leverage Service Commands
  • Define a Default Service
  • Expose a Service HTTP Port
  • Set the Document Root Path
  • Clone Git Repositories Into Your Services
  • Running a Background Process
  • Create Custom Environment Variables
  • How to obtain service URLs for non-default services
  • Services in Action
• Service Images
  • Docker Image Version Tags Primer
  • Using Tugboat's Prebuilt Docker Images
  • Using a Docker Image to Mirror Your Production Services
  • Third Party Docker Images
  • Docker Pull under the hood

A Tugboat Service plays the role of what a server might provide in a production environment. A service can be a web server, a database server, a cache store, etc. Services form the core of your Config file, working together to build a Preview.