Container Images

Container Images Demo

A collection of containerized services running as Vercel Functions, each built from its own Dockerfile and routed through a single vercel.json. It showcases the Vercel Dockerfile runtime alongside the native Next.js runtime — nine independent services sharing one domain.

Demo

https://container-images-demo.labs.vercel.dev

Services

How It Works

Each service is self-contained — it serves its own UI and its own API/WebSocket endpoints under its path prefix. There is no API gateway: vercel.json declares each service and uses rewrites to route requests by path. The web service is a static directory page; a final catch-all rewrite sends all other traffic to it.

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{
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  "services": {
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    "rust": { "root": "apps/rust", "entrypoint": "Dockerfile" },
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    // ...other Dockerfile services
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    "web": { "root": "apps/web", "framework": "nextjs" }
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  },
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  "rewrites": [
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    { "source": "/rust/(.*)", "destination": { "service": "rust" } },
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    { "source": "/rust", "destination": { "service": "rust" } },
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    // ...other service routes
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    { "source": "/(.*)", "destination": { "service": "web" } }
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  ]
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}

How to Use

You can choose from one of the following two methods to use this repository:

One-Click Deploy

Deploy the example using Vercel:

Clone and Deploy

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git clone https://github.com/vercel/examples/tree/main/container-images/demo

Install the Vercel CLI:

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npm i -g vercel

Then run the app at the root of the repository:

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vercel dev