Pause a GitHub Actions workflow and require manual approval from one or more approvers before continuing.

To approve the job, click Approve and deploy. Once a job is approved (and any other deployment protection rules have passed), the job will proceed. At this point, the job can access any secrets stored in the environment. To reject the job, click Reject. If a job is rejected, the workflow will fail.

Feb 15, 2023 · On Github Actions you can use Environments to set required approvers (this will send emails to the users when needed). You can list multiple teams / people that can approve the job, and only 1 person needs to approve it from that list for the workflow to continue, as explained to this other section of the documentation :

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When an outside contributor submits a pull request to a public repository, a maintainer with write access may need to approve some workflow runs. Anyone can fork a public repository, and then submit a pull request that proposes changes to the repository's GitHub Actions workflows.

Oct 31, 2024 · Using the open-source action trstringer/manual-approval, you can create a manual approval step by generating a GitHub issue as part of your workflow. Here’s how it works: 1. Workflow...

Feb 7, 2025 · In this write up, we will quickly see how we can perform controlled/uncontrolled deployments to different environments by enabling single review & approval setup for a workflow with multiple...

This repo shows how to set up GitHub approval gates that will require a user to review and approve the changes before they are deployed to an individual environment. Figure: Enable workflow write permissions

Mar 28, 2022 · Introducing the manual-approval GitHub Action! By using this action in your workflow it will pause until the designated approver (s) has/have approved (or denied) the continuation of the workflow. Here is the usage: manual-approval will create a GitHub issue in the corresponding repository and assign the issue to the specified approvers.

GitHub Actions offers features that let you control deployments. You can: Trigger workflows with a variety of events. Configure environments to set rules before a job can proceed and to limit access to secrets. Use concurrency to control the number of deployments running at a time.