Background Workers

Long-running processes without a public HTTP endpoint—queue consumers, agents, and async pipelines on the same isolation model.

Jobs that pull from a queue or loop forever without serving web traffic.

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What you get

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No public port

Background workers run as containers without an inbound HTTP route. They talk to Postgres, Key Value, and other services over the private workspace network.

Create a worker
POST /v1/services
{
  "name": "queue-consumer",
  "type": "background_worker",
  "startCommand": "node worker.js"
}

Works well with

Pair Background Workers with other Isoward services in the same workspace.

Key ValueWeb ServicesCron Jobs

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Deploy on Isoward Cloud or run the same workflow on metal you control.

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