Additional services

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Additional services

Ploi Cloud offers specialized container services beyond standard databases and caches for more flexibility.

Available services

Chrome Headless

Chrome Headless provides a headless Chrome browser for web scraping, screenshot generation, and PDF creation.

Use cases:

  • Web scraping and automation
  • PDF generation from web pages
  • Screenshot capture
  • Browser testing

Environment variables injected:

  • CHROME_HEADLESS_URL - Full URL to the service
  • CHROME_HEADLESS_HOST - Service hostname
  • CHROME_HEADLESS_PORT - Port 3000
  • BROWSERLESS_URL - Alternative URL variable

ClickHouse

ClickHouse is a fast column-oriented database optimized for analytics and big data workloads.

Use cases:

  • Real-time analytics
  • Log analysis
  • Time-series data
  • Data warehousing

Environment variables injected:

  • CLICKHOUSE_URL - HTTP connection URL
  • CLICKHOUSE_HOST - Service hostname
  • CLICKHOUSE_PORT - HTTP port 8123
  • CLICKHOUSE_NATIVE_PORT - Native protocol port 9000

Gotenberg

Gotenberg provides a stateless API for converting HTML, Markdown, and Office documents to PDF.

Use cases:

  • Invoice generation
  • Report creation
  • Document conversion
  • Print-ready PDF generation

Environment variables injected:

  • GOTENBERG_URL - Full URL to the service
  • GOTENBERG_HOST - Service hostname
  • GOTENBERG_PORT - Port 3000

Meilisearch

Meilisearch is a lightning-fast search engine with typo tolerance.

Use cases:

  • Full-text search
  • Product search
  • Documentation search
  • Instant search suggestions

Environment variables injected:

  • MEILISEARCH_URL - Full URL to the service
  • MEILISEARCH_HOST - Service hostname
  • MEILISEARCH_PORT - Port 7700
  • MEILISEARCH_KEY - Master key for authentication
  • MEILI_MASTER_KEY - Alternative master key variable

Adding a service

  1. Navigate to your application
  2. Click "Add service"
  3. Select the service type from the available options
  4. Choose a version if multiple are available
  5. Configure any optional settings
  6. Click "Create service"

Request new services

Need a service that's not yet available? You can request new services to be added to Ploi Cloud via our roadmap at roadmap.ploi.cloud.