Tutorial

Tutorial Overview

Airship is a deployment manager to run services across many machines. It supports deployment into physical machines or cloud based platforms.

Airship has three components: A command line client (the airship command), the coordinator which keeps track of the various deployed services and finally one or more agents. An airship installation runs one agent per physical machine or cloud instance.

There is a strong heritage from the Java and Apache Maven eco-system in airship. If you are unfamiliar with Apache Maven, reading up on Naming Conventions and the groupId/artifactId/version (GAV) naming scheme will make the rest of the tutorial easier to understand.

This tutorial is not for the faint of heart. General knowledge of the Unix command line, Java and Apache Maven ecosystem is assumed.

This tutorial uses version 0.13 of airship. Check the latest version available at Maven Central.

• Introduction
• Installing a local airship environment
• Building a local configuration repository
• Configuring coordinator and agent
• Installing and deploying snapshot and release configuration bundles
• Installing and starting the coordinator and the agent
• Odds and ends