How we save and manage each VMs state
A snapshot is a copy of a virtual machine at a specific moment in time. Snapshots help to load environments and configurations so that you can skip running steps that have not changed or that have successfully executed on previous commits.
Listed below is a summary of how we delete snapshots. It’s important to review this to learn the states of snapshots at different times.
VIP Snapshots:
Important Snapshots:
Order Snapshot Importance (VIP, Important, Not Important)
Delete Snapshots
Listed below is the process on how webapp.io will carry out deleting the prioritized snapshots.
Environments (Layerfiles with EXPOSE WEBSITE, Layerfiles that expose a debug terminal, etc.) have three lifecycle levels:
The Running lifecycle to Stopped lifecycle happens for a few reasons:
A stopped state indicates that your snapshot is still available but has been stopped due to the reasons above.
If you have deployed a VM with webapp.io hosting your VM will stop based on the same reasoning above. However your VM snapshot will not be deleted - giving your end-users a fast cold-start experience.
The Stopped lifectyle to Deleted lifecycle happens for two reasons:
How we save and manage each VMs state
A snapshot is a copy of a virtual machine at a specific moment in time. Snapshots help to load environments and configurations so that you can skip running steps that have not changed or that have successfully executed on previous commits.
Listed below is a summary of how we delete snapshots. It’s important to review this to learn the states of snapshots at different times.
VIP Snapshots:
Important Snapshots:
Order Snapshot Importance (VIP, Important, Not Important)
Delete Snapshots
Listed below is the process on how webapp.io will carry out deleting the prioritized snapshots.
Environments (Layerfiles with EXPOSE WEBSITE, Layerfiles that expose a debug terminal, etc.) have three lifecycle levels:
The Running lifecycle to Stopped lifecycle happens for a few reasons:
A stopped state indicates that your snapshot is still available but has been stopped due to the reasons above.
If you have deployed a VM with webapp.io hosting your VM will stop based on the same reasoning above. However your VM snapshot will not be deleted - giving your end-users a fast cold-start experience.
The Stopped lifectyle to Deleted lifecycle happens for two reasons: