Containers

A Container in Serversinc represents a single running instance of a Docker container on one of your servers.
Serversinc keeps a copy of each container’s data in the database, making it possible to manage and inspect containers from the dashboard even if they were created outside of an Application.

What Containers Represent

Each container entry is a reflection of a live Docker container running on a server.

Containers may be:

Linked to an Application (deployed through Serversinc).
Orphaned (not tied to an Application). This can happen if you run containers manually, or when certain system services (like Tugboat) are created without a parent Application.

👉 To view all containers on a specific server, including orphaned ones:
Servers → Server → Containers

Container Lifecycle

You can fully manage the state of containers from the dashboard:

Start – Boot up a stopped container.
Stop – Shut down a running container.
Restart – Stop and immediately start the container again.
Delete – Permanently remove the container from the server.

Commands

From the Commands tab, you can run shell commands inside a container.

Useful for running migrations, maintenance tasks, or debugging.
Commands execute in the container’s active runtime and return output/logs in the dashboard.

Logs

The Logs tab provides live and historical logs from the container’s standard output and error streams.

Useful for monitoring, debugging, and checking container health.

Read-Only Configuration Tabs

Each container has two additional read-only tabs that reflect its runtime configuration:

Environment
- Lists environment variables, volumes, labels, and exposed ports.
- Mirrors the exact configuration Docker used to launch the container.
Network
- Shows network settings such as container IP address, connected Docker networks, and aliases.

Orphaned Containers

Some containers are not tied to any Application:

These are called orphaned containers.
They may appear if you run Docker containers manually on a server, or if Serversinc launches containers for internal services (like Tugboat).

Orphaned containers are still fully manageable via the Serversinc dashboard.