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Long-running services

Run services with readiness, ports, logs, lifecycle, and policy.

Services need more lifecycle structure than one-shot commands.

Shape

Section titled “Shape”
  • Build an image with the service and dependencies.
  • Declare the service command as the entrypoint.
  • Declare ports explicitly.
  • Add readiness checks where supported.
  • Use mvmctl machine logs, mvmctl machine wait, and mvmctl machine boot-report for diagnostics.
Terminal window
mvmctl machine run --manifest ./mvm.toml --name api-dev --port 8080:8080
mvmctl machine wait api-dev --for all
mvmctl machine logs api-dev -f

Security notes

Section titled “Security notes”
  • Bind only the ports the caller needs.
  • Keep egress policy separate from inbound port exposure.
  • Use cold mode only when preserving service state is intentional.
  • Make stop/destroy semantics explicit in SDK examples.