[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"problem-detail-error-time-10t23-29z-level-warning-msg-the-acme":3},{"stack":4,"error":5,"seoName":6,"seoStack":7,"seo":8,"breadcrumb":10,"titlePrefix":17,"titleAccent":6,"lead":18,"facts":21,"why":36,"log":41,"fix":62,"engine":71,"related":78,"pitch":85},"dockerfile","time-10t23-29z-level-warning-msg-the-acme","Docker Compose service dependency is missing","Dockerfile",{"description":9},"Learn what causes Docker Compose service dependency is missing, how PanelAlpha Engine responds to it during deployment.",[11,14,16],{"label":12,"href":13},"App Installations","\u002Fapps",{"label":7,"href":15},"\u002Fapps\u002Fstacks\u002Fdockerfile",{"label":6},"",[19],{"text":20},"Error recorded 1 times in PanelAlpha Engine deploys on Dockerfile. The deploy log below is the recorded failure output.",[22,27,30,32],{"label":23,"value":24,"tone":25,"tooltip":26},"Type","Error","err","An error that occurred in the deployed application. It is not necessarily a PanelAlpha Engine error, but we keep working on improvements so you run into fewer of them.",{"label":28,"value":29},"Seen","1 times",{"label":31,"value":7},"Where",{"label":33,"value":34,"tooltip":35},"Status","Observed","Our team will look into this soon, verify the cause and try to fix it in an upcoming release.",{"heading":37,"body":38},"Why it happens",[39],{"text":40},"The deployment keeps selected runtime services from the repository’s Compose file, including Redis and Traefik. The app still declares a dependency on Traefik, but that service is not present in the resulting Compose project. Missing ACME_EMAIL and DB_PWD values are also reported as warnings, but the undefined Traefik dependency is what stops startup.",{"heading":42,"block":43},"What the log looks like",{"header":44,"lines":45},"Deploy log",[46,50,54,58],{"segments":47},[48],{"text":49},"Starting application (docker compose up -d)",{"segments":51},[52],{"text":53},"time=\"2026-09-10T23:56:29Z\" level=warning msg=\"The \\\"ACME_EMAIL\\\" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string.\"",{"segments":55},[56],{"text":57},"time=\"2026-09-10T23:56:29Z\" level=warning msg=\"The \\\"DB_PWD\\\" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string.\"",{"segments":59},[60],{"text":61},"service \"app\" depends on undefined service \"traefik\": invalid compose project",{"heading":63,"steps":64,"block":68},"How to fix it",[65],[66],{"text":67},"Update the Compose configuration so the app does not depend on a service that Engine removes, or keep the Traefik service in the deployed stack. Provide ACME_EMAIL and DB_PWD through the project environment if those services require them. Commit the changes and redeploy.",{"header":69,"lines":70},"Fix by hand",[],{"heading":72,"body":73,"block":76},"How PanelAlpha Engine solves it",[74],{"text":75},"Validate dependencies after filtering runtime services and report the removed service clearly. The Dockerfile strategy should either preserve services referenced by depends_on or rewrite\u002Fremove incompatible dependencies before running Compose.",{"header":17,"lines":77},[],{"heading":79,"items":80},"Apps affected",[81],{"title":82,"badge":83,"tone":25,"href":84},"digiboard","1 occurrence","\u002Fapps\u002Fcodeberg.org\u002Fladigitale\u002Fdigiboard",{"heading":86,"body":87,"footNote":88,"docsLabel":89,"docsHref":90},"Try PanelAlpha Engine yourself.","The easiest way to turn your server into a safe, controlled environment for your AI agent. Deploy, manage and maintain any project from Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or any other MCP client. Open source under Apache 2.0, free to run.","Requires Ubuntu 24.04 or 26.04 · 2 GB RAM · 1 CPU","Read the documentation","https:\u002F\u002Fpanelalpha.com\u002Fdocs"]