Services
A Service is a containerized backend application that Forte builds from GitHub. Services run behind Forte-managed ingress, which supplies HTTPS, DDoS protection, request records, and the optional authentication boundary for your Users.
Operating model
A Service belongs to a Project and tracks a repository, branch, runtime configuration, provisioned capacity, environment variables, and deployment history. A push to the configured branch starts a build. After the built container passes deployment health checks, Forte routes requests to it and records request method, route, status, and latency.
Forte can detect build configuration for supported projects or use the Dockerfile supplied by the repository. Provisioned instances remain available for traffic; autoscaling adds capacity when the workload requires it.
Responsibility boundary
Forte operates the build runner, container deployment, managed ingress, TLS, DDoS protection, scaling workflow, and request record. You own the application, dependencies, authorization logic, secrets, capacity choice, safe retry behavior, and the content your service logs or returns.
State you can inspect
- Build logs and detected configuration
- Deployment and health state
- Environment variables and secrets configuration
- Request status and latency
- Correlated application logs when request IDs are emitted
- Pause and resume state