Release gating with pull requests and deployment to production

The process of pull request gating is straightforward. At the end of the Dev CD workflow, we’ll introduce a step to initiate a pull request to merge dev into the prod branch. Human approval is required to proceed with merging the pull request. This step highlights how various organizations may adopt different methods to verify and promote tested code. Some may opt for automated merging, while others may prioritize human-triggered actions. Once the code is successfully merged into the prod branch, it triggers the Prod CD workflow. This workflow creates the Prod environment and deploys our application. It also executes the same integration test we ran in the Dev environment to ensure the deployed application in Prod remains intact.

Here’s the step we’ll add to the Dev CD workflow:

  raise-pull-request:
    name: Raise Pull Request
    needs: [binary...