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Step 4: Access Your Application

Once deployed, your application is accessible through the dstack gateway.

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Find Your Application URL

  1. In the dashboard, click on your deployment
  2. Look for the “Endpoints” section
  3. You’ll see URLs like:
    • Internal: http://cvm-abc123.local:8080
    • External: https://my-first-app.app.example.com

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Test Your Application

# Test the application
curl https://my-first-app.app.example.com

# Expected response:
{
  "message": "Hello from dstack! 🔒",
  "secure": "Running in a Trusted Execution Environment",
  "hostname": "cvm-abc123",
  "environment": "production"
}

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Additional Access Methods

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Gateway URL Patterns

Beyond basic URLs, the gateway supports multiple patterns:
  • <app-id>.<base_domain> → port 80
  • <app-id>s.<base_domain> → port 443 (TLS passthrough)
  • <app-id>-<port>.<base_domain> → custom port
  • <app-id>-<port>s.<base_domain> → custom port with TLS passthrough

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Programmatic Access via SDKs

Interact with dstack services programmatically: JavaScript/TypeScript: 
import { DstackClient } from '@dstack/sdk'
const client = new DstackClient()
const key = await client.getKey('/path', 'purpose')
Python: 
from dstack_sdk import DstackClient
client = DstackClient()
key = client.get_key('/path', 'purpose')
Go: 
client := dstack.NewClient()
key, err := client.GetKey("/path", "purpose")

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Direct CVM Access

SSH into CVM (development images only): 
ssh root@<wireguard-ip>  # Get IP from gateway dashboard
Unix Socket Communication: 
# Mount socket in docker-compose.yaml
volumes:
  - /var/run/dstack.sock:/var/run/dstack.sock

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Management Dashboards

  • VMM Dashboard: http://localhost:9080 - deployment management
  • Gateway Dashboard: Monitor CVM connections and WireGuard status
  • Container Logs: HTTP endpoints with filtering options

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Log Access

# Via VMM CLI
python3 vmm-cli.py logs <vm_id> --follow

# Via HTTP API
curl http://localhost:8080/logs?id=<vm_id>&follow=true