# Feature Requests **URL:** https://community.convox.com/c/features/11.md [Latest](https://community.convox.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://community.convox.com/categories.md) --- ## [Documentation Improvements](https://community.convox.com/t/documentation-improvements/634)
**Author:** [@ed\_convox](https://community.convox.com/u/ed_convox)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [March 20, 2025, 8:08am UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/documentation-improvements/634 "2025-03-20T08:08:24Z")
This is a thread to capture any feedback on areas you think the documentation site (https://docs.convox.com/) is lacking, things you spot that are out of date or confusing, or entirely new docs that deserve to be created… --- ## [Feature Request: A separate set of env variables marked as secrets that get masked in CLI output](https://community.convox.com/t/feature-request-a-separate-set-of-env-variables-marked-as-secrets-that-get-masked-in-cli-output/978)
**Author:** [@nathan.f77](https://community.convox.com/u/nathan.f77)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 18, 2026, 9:02pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/feature-request-a-separate-set-of-env-variables-marked-as-secrets-that-get-masked-in-cli-output/978 "2026-04-18T21:02:18Z")
Hello, I have a feature request that would make my usage of the CLI more secure. When I run convox env, it’s always concerning to see all our passwords and API tokens logged in plain text. I would like to propose that th… --- ## [Feature Request: Access a service both locally and via public load balancer](https://community.convox.com/t/feature-request-access-a-service-both-locally-and-via-public-load-balancer/960)
**Author:** [@nathan.f77](https://community.convox.com/u/nathan.f77)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 22, 2025, 7:58am UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/feature-request-access-a-service-both-locally-and-via-public-load-balancer/960 "2025-02-22T07:58:48Z")
I’ve been poring over the documentation and trying to figure out how to do this, but it looks like services can only be internal or publicly exposed, but not both. I have a web service that is currently publicly accessib… --- ## [Tmpfs support](https://community.convox.com/t/tmpfs-support/685)
**Author:** [@stefano](https://community.convox.com/u/stefano)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 15, 2025, 9:21am UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/tmpfs-support/685 "2025-01-15T09:21:18Z")
Hello, tmpfs is a way to have an in-memory filesystem available to the container, so that the application can work on temporary files very fast. In our case, we need this to work on temporary SQLite database, that need… --- ## [V3 - Enable docker layer caching using --cache-from](https://community.convox.com/t/v3-enable-docker-layer-caching-using-cache-from/870)
**Author:** [@rhys](https://community.convox.com/u/rhys)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [December 12, 2024, 9:04pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/v3-enable-docker-layer-caching-using-cache-from/870 "2024-12-12T21:04:03Z")
Please could you make it so that we get better docker layer caching when building services by enabling external caching from existing images in ECR? --- ## [Why Am I Unable to See My Post?](https://community.convox.com/t/why-am-i-unable-to-see-my-post/952)
**Author:** [@jessyyywilliam](https://community.convox.com/u/jessyyywilliam)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 30, 2024, 7:10am UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/why-am-i-unable-to-see-my-post/952 "2024-07-30T07:10:31Z")
Hello there, Recently I posted a thread: https://community.convox.com/t/looking-for-guidance-on-convox-optimisation-for-applications-with-high-traffic/950/1 I got a notification that left me disappointed as it shows… --- ## [Looking for Guidance on Convox Optimisation for Applications with High Traffic](https://community.convox.com/t/looking-for-guidance-on-convox-optimisation-for-applications-with-high-traffic/950)
**Author:** [@jessyyywilliam](https://community.convox.com/u/jessyyywilliam)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 29, 2024, 6:39pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/looking-for-guidance-on-convox-optimisation-for-applications-with-high-traffic/950 "2024-07-29T18:39:15Z")
Hello Everyone :hugs:, I’m contacting you in order to ask for your opinion on how to best optimise Convox to manage apps with a lot of traffic. I’ve been using Convox for a while, and thus far, I’ve found its deployment… --- ## [Blue/green deployments for safe Convox release updates](https://community.convox.com/t/blue-green-deployments-for-safe-convox-release-updates/901)
**Author:** [@nathan.f77](https://community.convox.com/u/nathan.f77)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2022, 3:13am UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/blue-green-deployments-for-safe-convox-release-updates/901 "2022-11-08T03:13:47Z")
I’m always a bit nervous about updating my Convox racks, because updating the version often causes some short outages. For example, my API briefly went offline when I updated from 3.3.4 to 3.5.0. It would be really real… --- ## [Support for DNS-01 Challenge Provider for cert-manager (LetsEncrypt)](https://community.convox.com/t/support-for-dns-01-challenge-provider-for-cert-manager-letsencrypt/902)
**Author:** [@nathan.f77](https://community.convox.com/u/nathan.f77)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2022, 3:25am UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/support-for-dns-01-challenge-provider-for-cert-manager-letsencrypt/902 "2022-11-08T03:25:25Z")
This is something that I have always needed during major Convox migrations. The DNS provider allows LetsEncrypt to issue new SSL certs by validating a DNS record instead of making an HTTP request. This means that I can g… --- ## [Linode as a runtime integration](https://community.convox.com/t/linode-as-a-runtime-integration/859)
**Author:** [@user3](https://community.convox.com/u/user3)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 20, 2021, 12:51am UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/linode-as-a-runtime-integration/859 "2021-12-20T00:51:34Z")
Great company, they’ve got a good managed Kubernetes product. Might work? Not sure what the other infrastructure requirements are as they’re much smaller than Azure or AWS. But would be nice to have the option. --- ## [Billing Contact to receive all invoices](https://community.convox.com/t/billing-contact-to-receive-all-invoices/843)
**Author:** [@alon](https://community.convox.com/u/alon)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 19, 2021, 11:38am UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/billing-contact-to-receive-all-invoices/843 "2021-10-19T11:38:00Z")
Hi there, Can we set up an email that will receive all invoices, of our main billing contact? We have an “Accounts Payable” department and we want them to receive the invoices. Thanks! --- ## [Bring back the Gen2 docs](https://community.convox.com/t/bring-back-the-gen2-docs/836)
**Author:** [@liam.dawson](https://community.convox.com/u/liam.dawson)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 7, 2021, 9:36am UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/bring-back-the-gen2-docs/836 "2021-10-07T09:36:17Z")
I went to https://docs.convox.com today and noticed that the link to the Gen2 docs are missing. As we still maintain Gen2 applications, those docs are pertinent to us. Given that Convox doesn’t indicate that Gen2 is unsu… --- ## [TCP/UDP services for gen2](https://community.convox.com/t/tcp-udp-services-for-gen2/402)
**Author:** [@idris](https://community.convox.com/u/idris)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [October 6, 2021, 9:17pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/tcp-udp-services-for-gen2/402 "2021-10-06T21:17:36Z")
Currently our non-http/https services must live on Convox gen1. I believe if gen2 supported Network Load Balancers, we could move those services over to gen2 and drop gen1 altogether. --- ## [Ability to pass httpHeaders to readinessProbe/health check](https://community.convox.com/t/ability-to-pass-httpheaders-to-readinessprobe-health-check/815)
**Author:** [@rhys](https://community.convox.com/u/rhys)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2021, 7:09am UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/ability-to-pass-httpheaders-to-readinessprobe-health-check/815 "2021-04-27T07:09:22Z")
I would like to be able to pass some basic auth creds to a service in my app as part of the health check. i.e. health: path: /stats httpHeaders: - name: Authorization value: Basic ###… --- ## [Support Datadog with Fargate](https://community.convox.com/t/support-datadog-with-fargate/642)
**Author:** [@sam](https://community.convox.com/u/sam)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 7, 2020, 1:50pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/support-datadog-with-fargate/642 "2020-10-07T13:50:16Z")
As I mentioned here https://community.convox.com/t/datadog-fargate/570/2 its currently not possible to use ECS Fargate and DataDog via Convox due to how the tasks are built by Convox. It would be very useful to add suppo… --- ## [Scaleway Integration](https://community.convox.com/t/scaleway-integration/775)
**Author:** [@kldzj](https://community.convox.com/u/kldzj)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2020, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/scaleway-integration/775 "2020-08-29T12:27:13Z")
Scaleway (https://www.scaleway.com/en/) is a Cloud Provider that competes with DigitalOcean, also offers Kubernetes clusters but at a way cheaper price than DigitalOcean. Convox seems very interesting, but Scaleway has … --- ## [Docker labels on services](https://community.convox.com/t/docker-labels-on-services/773)
**Author:** [@liam.dawson](https://community.convox.com/u/liam.dawson)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 21, 2020, 2:06am UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/docker-labels-on-services/773 "2020-08-21T02:06:51Z")
Datadog recommend using Docker labels as part of their Unified Service Tagging instructions. The rack appears to use a single hard-coded set of Docker labels. It would be great to support setting these Docker labels in … --- ## [Auto scaling based on CPU usage](https://community.convox.com/t/auto-scaling-based-on-cpu-usage/766)
**Author:** [@matt](https://community.convox.com/u/matt)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 30, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/auto-scaling-based-on-cpu-usage/766 "2020-07-30T22:01:30Z")
Allow racks and apps to auto scale between a lower and higher limit based on cpu usage. --- ## [AWS CloudFormation now supports blue/green deployments for Amazon ECS](https://community.convox.com/t/aws-cloudformation-now-supports-blue-green-deployments-for-amazon-ecs/745)
**Author:** [@ali](https://community.convox.com/u/ali)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 29, 2020, 4:16pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/aws-cloudformation-now-supports-blue-green-deployments-for-amazon-ecs/745 "2020-07-29T16:16:56Z")
AWS CloudFormation now supports blue/green deployments for Amazon ECS so I wonder (and hope :crossed\_fingers:) convox racks —especially gen2— would add support for this feature. Any ideas? --- ## [Daily restarts](https://community.convox.com/t/daily-restarts/492)
**Author:** [@matt](https://community.convox.com/u/matt)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2020, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/daily-restarts/492 "2020-04-06T12:53:01Z")
Hi, Would it be possible to configure a daily restart option? Thanks, Matt --- ## [Custom resource tags](https://community.convox.com/t/custom-resource-tags/731)
**Author:** [@ali](https://community.convox.com/u/ali)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2020, 12:36pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/custom-resource-tags/731 "2020-04-06T12:36:25Z")
Hi, We’re using Rack v2 here, and as far as I know there’s no way we could add custom tags to resources created via CloudFormation with convox. Would it be possible to add a feature for custom tags on racks and apps&se… --- ## [ECS task definition \`--dnsServers\` support](https://community.convox.com/t/ecs-task-definition-dnsservers-support/723)
**Author:** [@stephen.chu](https://community.convox.com/u/stephen.chu)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2020, 6:08pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/ecs-task-definition-dnsservers-support/723 "2020-03-12T18:08:44Z")
Does Convox have plan to support at a ECS task definition level the --dnsServers parameter? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/task\_definition\_parameters.html I can’t quite see it supported in … --- ## [Add DocumentDB support](https://community.convox.com/t/add-documentdb-support/703)
**Author:** [@gilad](https://community.convox.com/u/gilad)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 21, 2020, 8:07pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/add-documentdb-support/703 "2020-02-21T20:07:17Z")
Beside redis, mysql, memcache and postgres - it would be awesome whether you also add mongodb (using DocumentDB - https://aws.amazon.com/documentdb/). --- ## [Gitlab selfinstall source](https://community.convox.com/t/gitlab-selfinstall-source/695)
**Author:** [@matt](https://community.convox.com/u/matt)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 19, 2020, 1:17pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/gitlab-selfinstall-source/695 "2020-02-19T13:17:18Z")
Hi, We run our own Gitlab server - would it be possible to allow adding a custom host for the GitLab server? Thanks, Matt --- ## [Use spot instances for build instance](https://community.convox.com/t/use-spot-instances-for-build-instance/569)
**Author:** [@mattwisner1](https://community.convox.com/u/mattwisner1)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2019, 10:12am UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/use-spot-instances-for-build-instance/569 "2019-12-05T10:12:20Z")
When using a dedicated build instance I think it would be nice if we could use spot instances just like the main rack allows for. --- ## [Allow resources to be renamed](https://community.convox.com/t/allow-resources-to-be-renamed/601)
**Author:** [@nils.jp.werner](https://community.convox.com/u/nils.jp.werner)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2019, 3:56pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/allow-resources-to-be-renamed/601 "2019-11-21T15:56:32Z")
It would be great to be able to rename resources. For example, newly created syslog resources are given a generic name. It would be nice to able to run: convox rack resources update syslog-7428 Name=datadog To rename t… --- ## [More Resource Parameters](https://community.convox.com/t/more-resource-parameters/612)
**Author:** [@sam](https://community.convox.com/u/sam)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 2, 2019, 10:07am UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/more-resource-parameters/612 "2019-10-02T10:07:59Z")
It would be very useful to have greater control over the configuration of various resource options. For instance postgres resources correspond to AWS RDS PostgreSQL instances, but we have no control over the use of the … --- ## [AWS App mesh support](https://community.convox.com/t/aws-app-mesh-support/573)
**Author:** [@sparky](https://community.convox.com/u/sparky)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 24, 2019, 5:05pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/aws-app-mesh-support/573 "2019-07-24T17:05:27Z")
What would AWS app mesh look like as an option in addition to or instead of the current application load balancer service routing look like? --- ## [LogRetention for apps](https://community.convox.com/t/logretention-for-apps/560)
**Author:** [@ali](https://community.convox.com/u/ali)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [July 9, 2019, 10:37am UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/logretention-for-apps/560 "2019-07-09T10:37:19Z")
If I am not mistaken LogRetention rack parameter is applied to CloudWatch log groups as well as s3 buckets, for the rack itself; however there’s no setting/parameter for apps, is there? It would be nice to have this fea… --- ## [Inform users during deployment that they need to confirm SSL setup](https://community.convox.com/t/inform-users-during-deployment-that-they-need-to-confirm-ssl-setup/558)
**Author:** [@mattwisner1](https://community.convox.com/u/mattwisner1)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 25, 2019, 5:20pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/inform-users-during-deployment-that-they-need-to-confirm-ssl-setup/558 "2019-06-25T17:20:17Z")
If a deployment requires a new SSL certificate the rack hangs in the “updating” state until the user specifically goes and approves the new cert via email. I feel like the somewhere as part of the deployment, or in the … [Next page](https://community.convox.com/c/features/11.md?page=1)