When you merge your work, we build it and store it away. Getting that build running somewhere is a separate job that somebody has to start, and for production somebody else has to agree to it.
Written for everyone. You do not need to know git to follow it.
Something happens
A thing that was built
A place it runs
Someone must approve
People often expect these two halves to be joined up, and they are not. We keep building and deploying separate on purpose. When a build finishes, all it means is that a new version is ready and waiting. Somebody still has to ask for it to go somewhere.
Step 1 of 9
Something happens
Merge to main
What happens
Once a reviewer approves your pull request and it goes into the main branch, everything below starts by itself. Before that, nothing has been built and nothing has moved anywhere.