Apiqcloud configuration manager is a powerful tool, which allows to take control over all of the files within the particular container. This allows to easily and quickly apply some common configurations to your nodes through the comfortable GUI right in your browser, without the necessity to establish SSH connection, that may be required for some complex operations.

In order to open the configuration manager, hover over the required node and click the Config button (the one with a wrench icon).

In the middle part of the dashboard, the corresponding configuration tab will be opened.

• Root (File Manager) - gives you an access to the container's local filesystem, where you can manage different settings within configuration files of your app
• Mount Points - list of folders, that are physically stored on the remote node but can be used at a current node (learn how you can mount data at Apiqcloud Cloud)
• Exports - list of folders, which are shared with other nodes, i.e. these files are stored locally, but are also available at the remote instances (find out more at the dedicated storage exportsdocumentation page)
• Favorites - files and folders you’ve marked as favorites so that you have a quick and simple access to them
  Note: For Apiqcloud native containers, all of the files, which was available for configuration before manager update in the Apiqcloud 4.7 release, are added to the favourites list automatically. And as for Docker containers, the paths to the added volumes are to be shown in this section.

Apiqcloud in-build file manager gives an easy and convenient access to your container files and allows to perform the majority of common operations right through the dashboard.

• easily switch between directories within the path by clicking on any of the intermediate folder. Also, you can specify the target location manually by typing it in the appropriate input field, which appears upon clicking on the empty space wherever at the path bar
  
  
  
  the action list contains a number of functions for the selected directory management, like content refresh, new item creation, addition of the selected item to favorites, its deletion or remote directory mounting
  
  
  

2. Below the tools panel, you can see the files tree, intended for a simple navigation between them and displaying of additional information on the comprised files.

• Name - file name, which can be edited by clicking on pencil icon (appears upon hovering over); also, you can manage the selected file by using the Additionally list
• Size - disk space consumed by a file
• Last Modified - date of file creation or its last changing
• Type - category a file belongs to (where the available types are regular file, directory, named pipe, socket, character device and block device)

  Note: Only the regular file type can be edited via the Config manager.

3. Each opened file (double click it or select the corresponding Open action for that) will be shown within the separate sub-tab, so you can switch between them without closing the previous one, which makes it more convenient to explore the file system.

Moreover, to simplify the operation of files management and editing, the appropriate Search option can be used, available by means of the same-named button at the top panel.

• Match Case - allows to perform a case sensitive search

• Regex - enables regular expressions for the search conditions specification

4. After you’ve finished file edits, don’t forget to Save changes you’ve made with a corresponding button at the top. Herewith, in case you are working with a layer of multiple nodes, you’ll be additionally asked whether it’s required to save the made changes only for the current instance or for all instances.

5. To make changes on some other node within the same layer, you can use the automatically fetched drop-down list at the top of the manager’s left part.

That’s all of the main file manager functions, which, hopefully, will greatly help you during your work with our Platform.