Forge Containers are now available through Forge's Early Access Program (EAP). To start testing this feature, submit your app's ID to our team through this link.

EAPs are offered to selected users for testing and feedback purposes. APIs and features under EAP are unsupported and subject to change without notice. APIs and features under EAP are not recommended for use in production environments.

For more details, see Forge EAP, Preview, and GA.

The current EAP release has a deliberately reduced scope and limited functionality. Its purpose is to create a usable containers environment where we can incrementally deliver new functionality and get your immediate feedback.

This release may not currently satisfy all your requirements. Going forward, we will be working with you to collect your feedback and evolve Forge Containers to meet your needs.

With this release, you can test and assess how to deploy a containerised service in Forge Containers. Service scaling, routing, deployment, and configuration options will be limited in this release, but we will be improving this over time.

Currently, Forge Containers has the following limitations:

Integration limitations

Forge Containers have not yet been fully tested against every single Forge module that supports an endpoint module as its implementation. Some rough edges may exist.
Documentation for reading/writing from Forge Object Store (EAP) is not yet available.
Apps can't process an async event within a container and provide a result back to the queue (async events processed by a container currently use a ‘fire and forget’ mechanism, and can't retry or assess success/failure of the event processing).
Containers can’t call the REST APIs of Bitbucket Cloud and Compass.

Deployment limitations

You can only build and run Forge Container services on Forge’s development and custom environments.
An app can only have one containerised service, which can only have one defined container.
To deploy a a change to a container image, you'll need to run forge deploy.

Lifecycle limitations

Service instances are not automatically recycled. Therefore, while Forge Containers is under active development, you may be periodically required to re-deploy your container services (using forge deploy) to pick up breaking changes to platform components. This will be communicated via Slack and Confluence blogs when required.
Service instances cannot be deleted. As such, deploying your app after editing your services.key in the manifest will fail, as apps are limited to only one containerised service during EAP.

Resource and scaling limitations

An app’s service can only have one instance, and cannot scale.
A service can have a maximum of 1000m CPU and 2048 Mi of memory allocated.

Observability limitations

CPU and memory usage tracking in the Developer Console are not yet available.