Create releases in Pipelines not at final stage
Right now you can only create releases at the last environment in a Pipeline. We'd like to have 2 stages so we have a true dry-run of deployment. Our pipeline is
Dev > QA > UAT > Staging > Production
Creation of the release branch before Staging would allow us to effectively cherry-pick what we want deployed into Staging as we get UAT approvals, do a test deployment where QA does a sanity/smoke test and have greater confidence when we get to our Production release.
Kyle Varga
shared this idea
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Carol Rathbun commented
This is so important to be able to merge features together before going to production. Merging into a release right before production leaves too much risk for something that is incorrect to be merged after something that was correct and there is no way to test it.
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Roy Lloyd commented
Enabling releases earlier in the pipeline would be an amazing time-saving feature for me as I am faced with >100 feature branches to merge into UAT. Only current option is to do this outside of Gearset.
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Sureshkumar Palaniappan commented
yes, this will be an useful feature to test the release process in preprod/staging before taking to live.