Instance settings
The domain, the contact address, the public IP, the DNS provider that writes the instance's own records — and the tabs beside them.
Settings is the instance's own configuration. Everything here is an admin's, and everything is a row the daemon reads live — Cubeship is installed with one command, reached by IP, and configured from here, with nothing to restart.
General
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Domain | where the instance answers, and the registry at registry.<domain>. Empty keeps the sslip.io address the install gave itself. |
| Contact email | the Let's Encrypt account's address. Optional: TLS follows the domain alone. |
| Public IP | what DNS records written by the instance point at. Detected when empty — see below. |
| DNS provider | which connected provider writes the instance's own records and is offered first when adding an app's name. |
Setting a domain brings the registry up and makes certificates possible. Point a record at the server first — the instance answers there over HTTPS the moment the certificate lands. An app deployed before the domain existed keeps its labels until it is redeployed, so an app that predates HTTPS stays on HTTP until then.
The public IP is the address records point at, best answer first: what you typed; the address the dashboard was opened at when it was an IP; the machine's own, asked on the host; never a private address. When none of those is a routable answer, the field is empty and every screen that would write a record says so instead of writing a wrong one.
The other tabs
- Updates — the version running, the newest available, and the automatic update time. See Updates.
- Backups — the instance's own backup.
- GitHub — the GitHub App the instance builds through. See GitHub.
Through the API: GET /settings and PUT /settings.