promote

Promoting develop to production requires pre-flight staging health checks, PR-driven merges to main, and post-deploy smoke testing. This automated workflow applies staged verification and controlled deployment to reduce release risk.

PR-driven deployment creates a pull request from develop to main, triggering CI checks and approvals before merging. This controlled merge mechanism ensures production releases pass automated security gates and continuous integration verification.

Preventing uncommitted production deployments requires pre-flight checks that scan for uncommitted changes and verify staging health before promotion. These safeguards block the release workflow until the working directory is clean and staging is verified.

Yes, CI status monitoring is enforced during the PR-driven merge from develop to main. The promotion workflow tracks CI results and applies a security gate, ensuring all continuous integration checks pass before production deployment proceeds.

Post-deploy verification is supported through basic smoke testing of production after the merge. Once develop is promoted to main and deployed, the workflow executes smoke tests to confirm production health and release stability.

Automated branch promotion is limited to release workflows requiring staging verification and PR-driven merges across develop and main branches. It does not apply to environments lacking CI checks, security gates, or staging health verification infrastructure.