The Pods Service is a web service and distributed computing platform providing pods-as-a-service (PaaS). The service implements a message broker and processor model that requests pods, alongside a health module to poll for pod data, including logs, status, and health. The primary use of this service is to have quick to deploy long-lived services based on Docker images that are exposed via HTTP or TCP endpoints listed by the API. **The Pods service provides functionality for two types of pod solutions:** * **Templated Pods** for run-as-is popular images. Neo4J is one example, the template manages TCP ports, user creation, and permissions. * **Custom Pods** for arbitrary docker images with less functionality. In this case we will expose port 5000 and do nothing else. The live-docs act as the most up-to-date API reference. Visit the [documentation for more information](https://tapis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/technical/pods.html).