Using Environments for Approval Workflows With GitHub Actions

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Last year I wrote a post about how I implemented an overly complex approval workflow with GitHub Actions. While it wasn’t the simplest solution, at the time it was a means to an end as we didn’t have any built-in way to do approval workflows with GitHub Actions. At the end of last year that changed with the introduction of Environments (announcement post). Environments bring in the concept of protection rules, which currently supports two types, required reviewers and a wait timer, which is exactly what we need for an approval workflow.

This content originally appeared on Posts on LINQ to Fail and was authored by Posts on LINQ to Fail