From "Merge is Deploy" to Release Engineering with GitHub Actions
Have you ever stopped to think about the risk of maintaining a conveyor belt where any merge into the main branch goes straight to production without any security gate? For a long time, our flow here was that classic script that almost everyone has used in their life: merging into main triggers SSH with git pull and pm2 restart. It worked on a daily basis, but it was that false sense of stability.
A software development team redesigned their delivery architecture to improve safety and reliability. Previously, their workflow allowed merges to production without security checks, leading to potential errors. The new architecture requires a SemVer-tagged release to trigger deployment, passing through six stages, including strict validation, quality gates, and automated testing.
This change has brought predictability and integrity to their migrations and deployments. The team has made their modular GitHub Actions template publicly available.
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