ping it to death - looks at cron triggers, but nothing will guarantee it 100%, can be evicted for di

ping it to death - looks at cron triggers, but nothing will guarantee it 100%, can be evicted for different reasons all the way down to a node failure

Allen•10/15/25, 1:18 PM

Thanks for your suggestion. I have considered this method before, but it may not work because of the global node. The location I ping will be different every time, so this cannot solve the problem.

Ppandalambda2 ping it to death - looks at cron triggers, but nothing will guarantee it 100%, c...

Allen•10/15/25, 1:18 PM

@pandalambda2

pandalambda2OP•10/15/25, 1:20 PM

if you use the same sessionid it will

pandalambda2OP•10/15/25, 1:20 PM

since the worker which could be anywhere on the network, will route to the specific DO

pandalambda2OP•10/15/25, 1:20 PM

and DO is 1:1 with the container

Thomas•10/15/25, 4:05 PM

fyi the automatically-set runtime environment variables mentioned here (specifically the durable object id) is just set to 64 'x's in dev https://developers.cloudflare.com/containers/platform-details/environment-variables/

is that intentional? if so it'd be lovely if mentioned in the docs

Cloudflare Docs

Environment Variables

The container runtime automatically sets the following variables:

JJon M.Any plans to actually show rollout progress when you update a container?

kian•10/15/25, 5:12 PM

There is already a rollout bar in the dashboard, are you referring to something else?

TThomas fyi the automatically-set runtime environment variables mentioned here (specific...

kian•10/15/25, 5:13 PM

That's intentional, we'll add it in as a note to the docs. It usually represents the DO backing your Container but in local development it's just powered by Docker so there isn't one.

kian•10/15/25, 5:14 PM

Are your Containers gracefully shutting down? If you had a

max_instances

max_instances

of 10 and rollout steps of

20, 100

20, 100

then we can't progress past 20% (aka 2 instances) until those 2 instances have stopped & we've brought them back up with the new settings.

kian•10/15/25, 5:14 PM

If they don't handle SIGTERM themselves then we give them 15 minutes before they're killed.

kian•10/15/25, 6:30 PM

Are you responding to a request and then starting compute like "hey, start this task -> yep, started"?

kian•10/15/25, 6:30 PM

The current lifecycle model of

sleepAfter

sleepAfter

kinda has a web server focus where once you respond,

sleepAfter

sleepAfter

starts and then we'll send a

SIGTERM

SIGTERM

to your Container.

kian•10/15/25, 6:30 PM

There is an

onActivityExpired

onActivityExpired

lifecycle hook in the Containers class where you can do your own logic to decide if

sleepAfter

sleepAfter

should start counting down

kian•10/15/25, 6:46 PM

https://github.com/cloudflare/containers/

kian•10/15/25, 6:46 PM

Lots of the docs are in the README of the library right now but we are working on moving this library into the runtime so it just works as a normal binding

kian•10/15/25, 6:46 PM

onActivityExpired

onActivityExpired

is basically your way to intercept the

sleepAfter

sleepAfter

invocation for now

kian•10/15/25, 6:47 PM

There's also some other APIs on the way like setting a hard timeout (my Container should stop running after 20 minutes from being started)

dev•10/15/25, 6:58 PM

what's the difference between a sandbox and a container?

kian•10/15/25, 7:12 PM

Containers is the primitive where the code is running - the Sandbox SDK runs your commands inside Containers

kian•10/15/25, 7:13 PM

You could build your own Sandbox SDK with Containers for example. This just already has it all setup for you with Node.JS / Python / Git etc installed & setup

dev•10/15/25, 8:31 PM

gotcha, so it's a container + some goodies to make running code inside the container easier

nneaowwplane•10/16/25, 3:09 PM

Hi, I was talking to some of the cloudflair team and one of the comments was that a minecraft server can be run in a container now. Is there any more info on this? as this sounds like a fun side project to play around with.

JJon M.I keep getting SIGTERM shutdowns and I can't figure out why. So frustrating. Is ...

kian•10/16/25, 3:18 PM

The primary reason is usually that

sleepAfter

sleepAfter

timeout being invoked in the Containers library.

Nnneaowwplane Hi, I was talking to some of the cloudflair team and one of the comments was tha...

kian•10/16/25, 3:18 PM

https://github.com/eastlondoner/mineflare

GitHub

GitHub - eastlondoner/mineflare

Contribute to eastlondoner/mineflare development by creating an account on GitHub.

Kkian https://github.com/eastlondoner/mineflare

nneaowwplane•10/16/25, 3:19 PM

oh you know I'm star-ing that

Kkian https://github.com/eastlondoner/mineflare

gruntlord6•10/16/25, 3:33 PM

thats actually a super cool idea, if containers were a bit cheaper it would probably make more sense. As is that would cost a fortune

gruntlord6•10/16/25, 3:34 PM

I dig the concept a lot though of having a one click "self hosted" install

kian•10/16/25, 3:40 PM

Yep - we're still working on improving pricing but we just can't really commit to anything specific yet until we're certain we can ship a given change: https://discordapp.com/channels/595317990191398933/1387061528016195684/1420515281507323934

ian•10/16/25, 10:49 PM

what API token permissions do I need to set in order to deploy containers from github actions? we're getting 403 on https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/***/containers/me

I used the "Edit Cloudflare Workers" token template and it's not working.

welz•10/17/25, 8:31 AM

Just exploring some ideas for Containers - they can run any code like a docker container?

Wwelz Just exploring some ideas for Containers - they can run any code like a docker c...

nneaowwplane•10/17/25, 9:23 AM

You can run a docker container in the container, so by extension I would say yes.

Kkian https://github.com/eastlondoner/mineflare

nneaowwplane•10/17/25, 9:25 AM

dose eastlondoner work at cloudflair? I have an idea for a plugin...

tao•10/17/25, 12:37 PM

How can I differentiate between production and staging environments when deploying a Cloudflare Container? I want to use separate environment variables

hudge•10/17/25, 1:18 PM

Hi all, we use Claude Agent SDK for all of our agent workflows and have just figured out how to get it to work on Cloudflare containers. We're strong on Claude Agents, less strong on Cloudflare container and would appreciate an guidance on how to make it more performant. Repo is here: https://github.com/receipting/claude-agent-sdk-cloudflare

GitHub

GitHub - receipting/claude-agent-sdk-cloudflare

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Martijn•10/17/25, 7:32 PM

Hi,

With the new sandbox that just came out are there plans to make it possible to deploy to a custom domain? For example I would like to deploy every PR to preview.domain.compreview.domain.com and have the PR number be either a prefix of the domain or an url so like <pr>.preview.domain.com<pr>.preview.domain.com or preview.domain.com/<pr>preview.domain.com/<pr>

Kris•10/18/25, 2:21 AM

Just in case someone else hits this in the future and searches: Bad things happen if there's a mismatch between the version of the @cloudflare/sandbox@cloudflare/sandbox package and the docker.io/cloudflare/sandboxdocker.io/cloudflare/sandbox Docker image. Was getting only a very generic SandboxErrorSandboxError with no other details which made it hard to track down.

Ttao How can I differentiate between production and staging environments when deployi...

pandalambda2OP•10/18/25, 6:24 AM

at this point its easier to use sam's alchemy or pulumi, think of wrangler as the fisher price toy, great for starting but eventually you'll be wrapping in your own scripts or shelling out, you might as well adopt a proper iac solution that has native concepts of environments (stacks in pulumi)

varasha_•10/18/25, 9:10 AM

Hello guys, can im use import http2 from 'http2' on cloud falre container?

John Spurlock•10/18/25, 3:40 PM

Looking forward to hearing about new pricing! As a baseline, here are the currently-documented costs for each instance type of running a single container 24/7 for 30 days (also the per hour cost) for easier ballpark comparisons. Container costs only, ignores egress and the cost of the DO keeping it alive. Let me know if my math is off

Hhudge Hi all, we use Claude Agent SDK for all of our agent workflows and have just fig...

Kris•10/18/25, 10:25 PM

I gave it a try as well, using the new @cloudflare/sandbox package. I found Claude Code to slow for my case, which is basically a one-shot generation of new code (rather than needing to modify existing code). For this, I found generating the code outside the container (using the Claude API directly) and just building it inside the container was much faster.

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