Last updated Jul 13, 2026

Forge Container services reference (Preview)

Forge Container services is now in Preview, and therefore fully supported. However, it remains under active development and may be subject to shorter deprecation windows. Preview features are suitable for early adopters in production environments.

We release preview features so partners and developers can study, test, and integrate them prior to General Availability (GA). For more details, see Forge EAP, Preview, and GA.

The following references provide more detailed information about the different tools, options, and requirements behind building containerised services in Forge.

Manifest

A full reference on declaring your app's services, containers, and image repos in the app manifest.

CLI

Forge CLI tools for managing services, containers, and image repos.

API contract

Building and handling containerised service API requests (includes environment variables injected upon deployment).

Logging

Default logging values added to your app logs, along with instructions for enriching logging data.

Image security guidelines

Hardening, egress, and tenant-isolation requirements for container images used by Forge Container services.

GLOSSARY

The implementation of Forge Container services varies slightly from how traditional containerised services work. Refer to the following Glossary to understand how specific terms are used in Forge Container services.