[RELEASED] Manual Trigger for Preview Environment

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This feature has been released, have a look at my message below for more details!

Hello!

to improve the user experience while using the preview environments, we are adding some cool functionalities that will let you spawn a preview environment on demand, directly from your Pull Request/Merge Request :magic_wand: (here the Roadmap item)

Today, if the preview environment feature is activated, a preview environment is created for every pull request. While it keeps simple to create a preview environment, it has the drawback to create a preview environment even when you don’t really need one (example: you have updated a README file :smiley: )

This is why we will add soon a new option in the preview environment configuration to decide whether or not a preview environment should be triggered manually or at every PR

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with this flag ON, the flow will be the following:

  • When a PR is created, we will receive the information from your Git provider
  • Qovery will drop a comment on your PR (similar to what we already do), asking you if you want to create a preview environment. A button will be present to trigger the preview environment flow
  • If you click on the button, the “classic” preview environment flow will be triggered (show the ongoing deployment + the URLs to access the deployed services)

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Roadmap item: https://roadmap.qovery.com/roadmap/trigger-to-create-a-preview-environment

Feel free to comment below if you have any questions or feedback to raise!

Alessandro

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This is a killer feature and one that will allow us to actually start using preview environments, thanks a lot!!

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It has been released!

You have now a new flag available within the preview environment settings called “Create on Demand”

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When the preview environment feature and this flag are activated, the preview environment won’t be created automatically. Instead the flow will go this way:

  1. a message is dropped on your PR asking you if you want to create a preview environment or not. You will get the list of environments where the preview env feature is activated (in case you have multiple environments) and the command to add as a comment of your PR to trigger the preview.
  2. you will have to add the command in a comment to trigger the preview
  3. the preview creation is triggered and your preview environment is deployed

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note: we had to change a little bit the flow vs what I shared in the first message due to some limitations on the different git providers we support where the “click” or edit on comments were not sent via the webhook systems

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We just released a new blog article to announce this fantastic new feature :slight_smile:

And here is a quick demo video as well.

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