Use only deploy hooks, instead of deploy on push.

[yassinebridi]

I want to trigger a vercel deployment from github actions, so i'm using a deploy hook to do that. But even if i don't trigger a deployment using the hook, vercel deploys the project anyway.

Vercel have no option to use only the deploy hook.

[cansin]

I believe you can rely on https://vercel.com/docs/configuration#git/github-enabled

{
  "github": {
    "enabled": false
  }
}

at vercel.json

[yassinebridi]

This unfortunately disables Deploy Hooks too, which i'm using to deploy my app manually.

[JohnDeved]

have you found a solution for this? @yassinebridi

[styfle]

Deploy hooks are designed for CMS changes if your site is completely static so git push will always deploy code changes and the deploy hook can deploy content changes.

Read more: https://vercel.com/docs/more/deploy-hooks

[styfle]

Is there a reason why you're using GitHub Actions to deploy instead of relying on git push?

[yassinebridi]

There is two reasons actually:

• I'm running a script that determines what packages changed, and then decide which GitHub action steps to be fired.
• For each successful job, i trigger a notification to a 3rd party service.

[styfle]

You can utilize that script in the Ignore Build Step so that Vercel knows if it should ignore the git push or deploy.

[sarahdayan]

@styfle Is there a way to pass arbitrary data when using Deploy Hooks so that there's a way to know where a deploy trigger is coming from, and bypass the restrictions from the Ignore Build Step script? I also want to disable deploy on push, but so far I haven't found a way to script my ignore step so it cancels builds on push and allows them when hitting the hook.

[evaldofelipe]

+1

[remjx]

as @styfle mentioned you should be able to accomplish it with an Ignore Build Step script

[thejuan]

We are also looking for this. We don't want to migrate our CI to vercel yet and want to manually trigger a deploy once the tests run green.

[JohnDeved]

its possible to make use of the vercel cli to archive custom CI deployments.
check this source code https://github.com/amondnet/vercel-action

[Pieparker]

For posterity, here's a great little tidbit from a similar thread.

Due to the overlap/to prevent duplicate discussions, I will lock this thread in favour of #285.