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# process:update

> Replace an installed Process specification or one Project process definition.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /openapi.json patch /api/v1/processes/{process}
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Orbit Gateway API
  version: v1
  description: >-
    The HTTP API of the active Orbit Gateway. The CLI and the PHP SDK send every
    fleet command through these endpoints over WireGuard. See [Using the
    API](/api/overview) for transport, authentication, envelopes, and errors.
servers:
  - url: https://gateway.orbit
    description: >-
      The active Gateway on the private WireGuard network, resolved by Orbit
      private DNS.
security: []
tags:
  - name: Gateway
    description: >-
      Status and trust of the active Gateway, and the releases of the Gateway
      itself.
  - name: Nodes
    description: Machines in the fleet, their roles, access grants, and storage settings.
  - name: Clusters
    description: Groups of Nodes with one Router and one development TLD.
  - name: Firewall
    description: Named UFW rules on one Node.
  - name: Fleet rollout
    description: >-
      The rollout of each verified Gateway release to the managed Nodes, and its
      catch-up.
  - name: Tools
    description: Packages that Orbit installs on a Node through a Tool Manager.
  - name: Metrics
    description: The Prometheus and Grafana role and its exporters.
  - name: GitHub App
    description: The Gateway's own read-only GitHub App and the accounts that installed it.
  - name: Analytics
    description: >-
      The analytics role, its Plausible version, and the Stats API key the
      Gateway uses to read visits.
  - name: Projects
    description: Repository records with one type, default branch, and web root each.
  - name: Instances
    description: Development checkouts and production releases of a Project on one Node.
  - name: Environment
    description: Stored Instance environment configuration and its .env projection.
  - name: Routes
    description: Domains that reach an Instance.
  - name: Database connections
    description: The registry of mysql, pgsql, and sqlite connections.
  - name: Processes
    description: >-
      systemd services and Docker containers owned by an Instance, a Node, or a
      Project definition.
  - name: Schedules
    description: Recurring commands run by native systemd timers.
  - name: Annotations
    description: Instance annotations, T3 delivery, and replayable status events.
  - name: Tasks
    description: Commander feature groups and ordered subtasks.
  - name: Extensions
    description: Gateway-owned extension switches.
  - name: Doctor
    description: Verify-only drift checks across the fleet.
  - name: Activities
    description: The Gateway log of authorized commands.
  - name: proxycli
    description: CLIProxyAPI quota snapshots, provider pools, and account controls.
  - name: Vaultwarden
    description: The copy of database credentials into a Vaultwarden collection.
  - name: Conn
    description: >-
      Profiles, shared workspace settings, registered T3 servers, and the
      pairing links the Gateway mints on them for each Node.
  - name: Realtime
    description: >-
      The record-change event feed broadcast to Reverb, its channel
      authorization, and Reverb connection discovery.
  - name: Node callbacks
    description: Endpoints that managed Nodes and Caddy call; operators do not call them.
paths:
  /api/v1/processes/{process}:
    patch:
      tags:
        - Processes
      summary: process:update
      description: >-
        Replace an installed Process specification or one Project process
        definition.
      operationId: process-update
      parameters:
        - name: process
          in: path
          required: true
          schema:
            type: integer
            minimum: 1
          description: Numeric Process ID.
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                user:
                  type: string
                  pattern: ^[a-z_][a-z0-9_-]{0,31}$(?![\s\S])
                  maxLength: 32
                  description: Existing non-root account for a Node systemd Process
                runtime:
                  type: string
                  enum:
                    - systemd
                    - docker
                  description: systemd or docker
                command:
                  type: array
                  maxItems: 64
                  minItems: 1
                  items:
                    type: string
                    maxLength: 4096
                  description: One command argument; repeat for each argv item
                image:
                  type:
                    - string
                    - 'null'
                  pattern: ^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9._\/:@-]*$(?![\s\S])
                  maxLength: 255
                  description: Conditionally required.
                working_directory:
                  type:
                    - string
                    - 'null'
                  pattern: ^\/(?!.*(?:^|\/)\.\.(?:\/|$))[^\x00\r\n]*$(?![\s\S])
                  maxLength: 4096
                  description: Runtime working directory
                environment:
                  type: object
                  maxProperties: 100
                  propertyNames:
                    pattern: ^[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*$(?![\s\S])
                  additionalProperties:
                    type: string
                    maxLength: 4096
                    pattern: ^[^\x00\r\n]*$(?![\s\S])
                  description: >-
                    Docker environment as a name-to-string-value map; values are
                    redacted in responses.
                ports:
                  type: array
                  maxItems: 100
                  items:
                    type: string
                    pattern: >-
                      ^(?:(?:\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}:)?\d{1,5}:\d{1,5}(?:\/(?:tcp|udp))?$(?![\s\S])
                volumes:
                  type: array
                  maxItems: 100
                  items:
                    type: object
                    additionalProperties: false
                    properties:
                      source:
                        type: string
                        pattern: >-
                          ^(?:\/[A-Za-z0-9._\/
                          -]+|[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9_.-]*)$(?![\s\S])
                        maxLength: 4096
                      target:
                        type: string
                        pattern: ^\/[A-Za-z0-9._\/ -]*$(?![\s\S])
                        maxLength: 4096
                      read_only:
                        type: boolean
                    required:
                      - source
                      - target
                restart_policy:
                  type: string
                  enum:
                    - never
                    - on-failure
                    - always
                    - unless-stopped
                keep_alive:
                  type: boolean
                  description: Keep running through app-dev idle hibernation
              required:
                - runtime
                - command
              additionalProperties: false
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The request succeeded.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  data:
                    $ref: '#/components/schemas/Process'
                  meta:
                    $ref: '#/components/schemas/Meta'
                required:
                  - data
                  - meta
        '403':
          description: >-
            The caller is not an active WireGuard peer (`peer.identity_unknown`)
            or lacks Node access to the target (`node_access.required`).
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '404':
          description: No record matches the path parameters.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '409':
          description: >-
            A guard refused the change and the Gateway changed nothing;
            `error.code` names the guard.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '422':
          description: >-
            The JSON body is not an object, has duplicate or unknown members, or
            fails validation (`validation.failed`).
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
      x-codeSamples:
        - lang: bash
          label: curl
          source: |
            curl -sS -X PATCH "https://gateway.orbit/api/v1/processes/41" \
              --cacert /path/to/orbit-root-ca.pem \
              -H 'Accept: application/json' \
              -H 'X-Orbit-Request-Id: 9d6b1e5c-4a3f-4a1b-9f0e-6d2c3f5a7b81' \
              -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
              -d '{"runtime": "systemd", "command": ["/usr/bin/php", "artisan", "queue:work"]}'
        - lang: php
          label: PHP SDK
          source: |
            <?php

            use Orbit\Sdk\GatewayConnector;
            use Orbit\Sdk\Requests\Processes\UpdateProcessRequest;

            $connector = new GatewayConnector(
                baseUrl: 'https://gateway.orbit',
                caPemPath: '/path/to/orbit-root-ca.pem',
            );

            $response = $connector->send(new UpdateProcessRequest(
                processId: 41,
                runtime: 'systemd',
                command: ['/usr/bin/php', 'artisan', 'queue:work'],
            ))->dto();
components:
  schemas:
    Process:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: integer
        target_type:
          type: string
        target_id:
          type: integer
        name:
          type: string
        runtime:
          type: string
        working_directory:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
        runtime_config:
          type: object
          additionalProperties: true
        restart_policy:
          type: string
        keep_alive:
          type: boolean
        desired_state:
          type: string
        status:
          type: string
        runtime_status:
          type: string
        failed_step:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
        error_code:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
        cpu:
          type:
            - number
            - 'null'
        memory_bytes:
          type:
            - integer
            - 'null'
        user:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
    Meta:
      type: object
      properties:
        request_id:
          type: string
          format: uuid
          description: >-
            The request ID the Gateway assigned or accepted; the same value is
            in the `X-Orbit-Request-Id` response header and in the Activity
            record.
      required:
        - request_id
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        error:
          type: object
          properties:
            code:
              type: string
              description: >-
                Stable error code, namespaced by family, such as
                `node.not_active` or `route.target_conflict`.
            message:
              type: string
              description: >-
                Safe message without credentials, environment values, or remote
                output.
            details:
              type: object
              additionalProperties: true
              description: >-
                Bounded, redacted details such as the conflicting record IDs or
                the failed validation rule.
            request_id:
              type: string
              format: uuid
          required:
            - code
            - message
      required:
        - error

````

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