embedded-agents.html.md.erb

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title: Configuring your services to use embedded agents
owner: Services
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You can configure services that use software agents embedded in application containers.

Some service integrations inject code into application containers.

Some examples include:

- Application Performance Monitoring (APM) agents for monitoring services.
- Container-embedded API gateways.
- Client-side routers.

VMware refers to these injected components as "container-embedded agents."

## <a id="resources"></a> Embedded agents resources

- [Resources for deploying your buildpacks](./buildpacks.html#other) provide a mechanism to inject components into the application container image, and the `.profile.d` directory provides a way to start agents before or alongside the customer application.
- [Using profile](https://docs.vmware.com/en/Tile-Developer-Guide/3.0/tile-dev-guide/cf-concepts.html)