3-Staged_deployments.md

🔨 Hands-on: Staged deployments

In this hands-on lab your will create environments and a staged deployment workflow with approvals.

This hands on lab is based on My first workflow and adds the following steps:

• 🔨 Hands-on: Staged deployments
  • Creating and protecting environments
  • Point the deploy job to an environment
  • Reviewing and approving deployments

Creating and protecting environments

1. Got to Settings | Environments and click New environment
2. Enter the name Staging and click Configure environment
3. Add yourself as the Required reviewer for this environment:

4. Only allow the mainbranch to be deployed to this environment:

Point the deploy job to an environment

1. Open your build/deploy workflow file and find the deploy job
2. In the depoloy job, add the yaml property environment: staging

deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: build
    environment: staging

Reviewing and approving deployments

1. Open the workflow run and start the review.

2. And approve it with a comment:

4. The result looks like this and contains the approval and the URL for the staging environment: