How to auto-deploy an environment

[adajou]

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Is there a possibility to auto deploy an environment after CI and all the checks have passed? I have thought of a way of doing that: In my CI pipeline I create a .deploy dev comment in my pull request. The problem is that the github bot will not trigger a deployment so I need to create this comment as a user that is a collaborator in this same repository. I was thinking of using a github app (or a service account) just as described in issue #297. How shall I use this app as admins?

Is there any other way to autodeploy than my suggestion above?

[GrantBirki]

👋 @adajou Auto-deploy isn't something I have personally ever used with this Action or heard of other people doing. That isn't to say it can't be done, just that I haven't seen it before.

There is an open pull request in a related project to this one to support the usage of GitHub Apps triggering these types of Actions -> github/command#70

However, none of that has landed yet.

The core design behind this Action is to really leave it up to the user how they go about their deployment process in their own unique way and prove best practices and guard rails to accomplish that. Commenting .deploy on a PR is generally something that a human does and maybe a different deployment approach suits your use case better.

[adajou]

Hi @GrantBirki thanks for the reply. I totally get it when it comes to the purpose of this action. The aim for us is to have the possibility to auto-build the dev environment and use manual commands for stage and prod and also we use the command action for own defined commands so semi-automated branch deployment is what we are trying to achieve