Lifecycle Overview

Ship Lifecycle

The lifecycle key is where you can define and customize the end-user experience for customers installing your application. A lifecycle has several step types:

• "message" - print a message to the console. This can be used multiple times.
• "config" - collect configuration from the end user based on the top-level config section
• "render" - generate assets based on provided config values. This commonly is used once in an application.

In ship, a short assets section to pull and run a private docker container might look like

lifecycle:
  v1:
    - message:
        contents: |
          This installer will prepare assets so you can run CoolTool Enterprise.
    - config: {}
    - render: {}
    - message:
        contents: |
          Asset rendering complete! Copy the following files to your production server

             ./scripts/install.sh
             ./images/myimage.tar

          And then, on that server, run

             bash ./scripts/install.sh

          To start the app. Thanks for using CoolTool!