Thank you! I asked Llama AI and it responded with an essay, maybe there’s still hope for mankind, or maybe not. It suggests triggering the Deploy to Production as soon as Deploy-to-review completes. No human necessary. This is what we’re looking at with AI, mark my words, we’re doomed.
needs: deploy-to-review
To set up a GitHub Actions workflow for continuous integration (CI) and deployment (CD), follow these steps:
- Create a new repository on GitHub or use an existing one.
- Install the necessary dependencies by running
npm install or yarn add.
- Set up a CI pipeline using GitHub Actions. You can do this by creating a
.github/workflows/ directory in your project root and adding a YAML file inside it. For example, create a file called ci.yml:
name: Continuous Integration
on: push
jobs:
build-and-test:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Checkout code
uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: Run tests
run: npm test
This will trigger the CI pipeline every time someone pushes changes to the repository. The pipeline will checkout the code, install dependencies, and then run the tests defined in the package.json file.
4. Add a CD stage to the pipeline by defining another job under the build-and-test job. This job will be responsible for deploying the application to the review environment. Here’s an example:
deploy-to-review:
needs: build-and-test
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Deploy to Review Environment
env:
REVIEW_ENVIRONMENT: ${{ secrets.REVIEW_ENVIRONMENT }}
run: |
echo "Deploying to review environment..."
git fetch --prune --progress origin +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
git reset --hard HEAD~1
git clean -fdx
npm ci
npm run build
npm run start
echo "Review environment deployed successfully!"
In this example, we define a new job called deploy-to-review, which has two main tasks:
a. It sets up the environment variables needed for the deployment process, such as the URL of the review environment. These variables are stored in the secrets.REVIEW_ENVIRONMENT variable.
b. It deploys the application to the review environment by checking out the latest version of the code from Git, installing dependencies, building the app, and starting the server.
5. Finally, you need to configure the CD pipeline to automatically deploy the application to the production environment once the review environment has been approved. To do this, you can create a separate job called deploy-to-production that triggers when the deploy-to-review job completes successfully. Here’s an example:
deploy-to-production:
needs: deploy-to-review
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Deploy to Production Environment
env:
PRODUCTION_ENVIRONMENT: ${{ secrets.PRODUCTION_ENVIRONMENT }}
run: |
echo "Deploying to production environment..."
git fetch --prune --progress origin +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
git reset --hard HEAD~1
git clean -fdx
npm ci
npm run build
npm run start
echo "Production environment deployed successfully!"
In this example, we define a new job called deploy-to-production, which has similar tasks to the deploy-to-review job but with some key differences:
a. It sets up the environment variables needed for the deployment process, such as the URL of the production environment. These variables are stored in the secrets.PRODUCTION_ENVIRONMENT variable.
b. It deploys the application to the production environment by checking out the latest version of the code from Git, installing dependencies, building the app, and starting the server.
6. Save the changes to your workflow file and commit them to your repository. Once you have pushed the changes to GitHub, the CI/CD pipeline will be triggered automatically whenever someone pushes changes to the repository.