Managing Services

The web UI manages the datastore services that back your apps - the PostgreSQL, Redis, or other services provided by Dokku's datastore plugins - without dropping to the command line.

The services list

From the UI you can:

• Create and delete services, with a typed confirmation before a service is destroyed. Deleting a service returns you to the service list and shows a toast; the service is marked "deleting" in the list until the background job finishes and it drops out.
• View general information for a service, including its Docker image, internal IP, exposed ports, data directories, and connection string.
• Link and unlink apps.
• View live container logs with pause and follow controls.
• Audit the service's recent commands on an Activity tab in a master-detail layout, live-tailing a selected command's output or showing its full log once complete. Viewing job logs requires the job:read permission.

A service's detail page

Creating a Service

Creating a service only requires a datastore type and a name. An Advanced options section on the create form optionally lets you customize the service at creation time:

• Image and Version / tag override the Docker image the service is provisioned with. Leaving them blank uses the datastore plugin's default image.
• Config options are passed as extra arguments to the container create command.
• Custom env sets environment variables for the service, entered one KEY=value per line.

Any field left blank falls back to the datastore plugin's own default, so the common path stays a single action.

The create form with Advanced options expanded

A service that is linked to one or more apps cannot be deleted until it has been unlinked from all of them.