Now that we are done working on our new feature, we would like our team lead to review our work before promoting it to production. To do that we are going to create a pull request and Seed will automatically create an ephemeral environment for it.

Enable pull request workflow on Seed

To enable auto-deploying pull requests, head over to your app on Seed. Click Settings.

Select edit pipeline in Seed

And Enable auto-deploy pull requests.

Select Enable Auto-Deploy PRs

Select the dev stage, since we want the stage to be deployed into the Development AWS account. Click Enable.

Select Enable Auto-Deploy

Create a pull request

Go to GitHub, and select the like branch. Then hit New pull request.

Select New pull requests in GitHub

Click Create pull request.

Select Create pull request in GitHub

Now back in Seed, a new stage (in this case pr2) should be created and is being deployed automatically.

Shoow pull request stage created

After the pr2 stage successfully deploys, you can see the deployed API endpoint on the PR page. You can give the endpoint to your frontend team for testing.

Show API endpoint in GitHub PR page

You can also access the pr2 stage and the upstream like stage on Seed via the View deployment button. And you can see the deployment status for each service under the checks section.

Show pull request checks in GitHub

Now that our new feature has been reviewed, we are ready to merge it to master.

Merge to master

Once your final test looks good, you are ready to merge the pull request. Go to GitHub’s pr page and click Merge pull request.

Select Merge pull request

Back in Seed, this will trigger a deployment in the dev stage automatically, since the stage auto-deploys changes in the master branch. Also, since merging the pull request closes it, this will automatically remove the pr2 stage.

Show dev stage auto deploying

After the deployment completes and the pr2 stage is removed, this is what your pipeline should look like:

Show pull request stage removed

From GitHub’s pull request screen, we can remove the like branch.

Select remove branch in GitHub

Back in Seed, this will trigger the like stage to be automatically removed.

Show branch stage removed

After the removal is completed, your pipeline should now look like this.

Show feature merged in dev stage

Next, we are ready to promote our new feature to production.