deploymentworkflow.md

Creating Deployment workflow

In this hands-on lab your will create simple deployment workflow using environments . If you like more background information, please refer to the Deploying with GitHub Actions pages on GitHub Docs.

Task 1 : Create a Dev Evironment

1. On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the repository.
2. Click Settings
3. In the left sidebar, click Environments
4. Click New Environment
5. In the Name field type Dev
6. Click Configure Environment
7. Click Save Protection rules

Task 2: Create a Production Evironment

1. In the left sidebar, click Environments
2. Click New Environment
3. In the Name* field type Production
4. Click Configure Environment
5. Select Required Reviewers checkbox
6. Add yourself as a review
7. Click Save Protection rules

Task 3: Add the following workflow

1. On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the repository.
2. Select Actions
3. Select New Workflow
4. Select Set up a workflow yourself
5. Name the file deploy.yml
6. Paste in the following code:

###################################################################
#Deploy action

# GitHub displays the names of your workflows on your repository's actions page
name: Bootcamp Deploy Action! 

# Controls when the workflow will run
on:   
  # Allows you to run this workflow manually from the Actions tab
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      ghhandle:
        description: 'The GitHub Handle of the user to set up'
        default: 'bootcamp_magician'
        type: string
           
# A workflow run is made up of one or more jobs that can run sequentially or in parallel
jobs:
  # This workflow contains a single job called "build"
  DeployToDev:
    # The type of runner that the job will run on
    runs-on: windows-latest
    environment: Dev
        
    # Steps represent a sequence of tasks that will be executed as part of the job
    steps:
      # Runs a single command using the runners shell
      - name: Deploying To Dev for ${{ inputs.ghhandle }}!
        run: "echo I just deployed to Dev"

  DeployToProd:
    runs-on: windows-latest
    needs: DeployToDev
    environment: Production
    
    steps:
      - name: Deploying To Production for ${{ inputs.ghhandle }}!
        run: "echo I just deployed to Production"
###################################################################

7. Commit changes directly to main branch

8. Now you can see Bootcamp deploy action in the Actions tab.

9. Since we have added Manual workflow_dispatch event as trigger type, we can trigger this manually only. Click Run Workflow

   

10. When the job is triggered for Production environment tasks, it will ask for review. You need to approve to continue with the execution.