Explore environment

Now that we’ve deployed our first Lifecycle environment, let’s take a tour of the PR comments to understand how to interact with our ephemeral environment.

Test Your Application

Let’s navigate to the deployed frontend app from the PR comment.

1. Click on the frontend link in the PR comment to navigate to your deployed application.
2. Add a task and complete few tasks to update data in backend.
3. Navigate to the variables page and checkout the variables in your application’s container.
4. Thats it! You have successfully deployed and tested the best todo app in the world! 🎉

Mission Control Comment

The Lifecycle PR comment in your pull request serves as the mission control for your ephemeral environment.

What You Can Do in the PR Comment

• Editable Checkboxes: Select or deselect services to include in your environment.
• Redeploy Checkbox: Triggers a redeploy (useful for transient issues).
• Deployment Section: Provides URLs to your deployed services.

Status Comment

When we add the lifecycle-status-comments! label to our pull request, Lifecycle will automatically add a status comment to the PR.

This comment provides real-time updates on the status, links to your deployments including the build progress and service statuses.

Notice the following while the environment is being built:

• The status comment is updated in real-time.
• The status of each service is displayed.
• The build logs are available for each service.

Next Steps

In the next section, we will:

⚙️ Customize our configuration
☑️ Enable and build an optional service(cache) support your application

Ready to level up your ephemeral environment? Let’s go! 🏃‍➡️