GitHub Actions Multi-Environment Promotion

Dev → Staging → Production Promotion Pipeline

A structured GitHub Actions workflow for promoting builds through multiple environments with manual approval gates at each stage, environment protection rules, and deployment history tracked via GitHub releases.

What's Included

• Automated deploy to dev on every push to main
• Manual approval gate before promoting to staging
• Second approval gate with required reviewer for production
• GitHub Environment protection rules configuration
• Deployment history tracked via GitHub releases with auto-generated changelog

What You Get

• promote.yml — promotion workflow with all three environments
• GitHub Environment setup guide (protection rules, reviewers)
• Example deployment scripts for each environment tier
• README.md — environment configuration and approval flow docs

Requirements

• GitHub repository with Actions and Environments enabled
• At least two GitHub users for required reviewers on production gate
• Deployment target credentials (ECS, Kubernetes, or custom hook)