Service

Usage:    hyper service [OPTIONS] COMMAND [OPTIONS]

Commands:
  create                   Create a service
  inspect                  Display detailed information on the given service
  ls                       List all services
  scale                    Scale the service
  rolling-update           Perform a rolling update of the given service
  attach-fip               Attach a fip to the service
  detach-fip               Detach the fip from the service
  rm                       Remove one or more services

In Hyper, a service is an abstraction which defines a logical set of containers and a policy by which to access them. The set of containers targeted by a service is determined by labels.

As an example, consider an image-processing backend which is running with 3 replicas. Those replicas are identical - frontends do not care which backend they use. While the actual containers that compose the backend set may change, the frontend clients should not need to be aware of that or keep track of the list of backends themselves. The service abstraction enables this decoupling.

Every service will receive an internal IP address which can only be accessed within the network the service resides. For public access, a floating IP address needs to be attached by attach-fip command.