environments.md

Environments

A environment can include several branches - base branch (default project branch) and optional additional branches (which merge into base).

When you commit to a branch, builds all environments in which branch included (base branch implicitly included to all environments).

When you build a environment, additional branches merged into base branch.

For example, it can be useful when you delay merging into master or test some branches at once. Or deploy.

Config example and explanation

Configuration is specified on project edit page.

In this example, there are three environments:

• Production (named pr) is associated with the default branch for the project.
• Release candidate (rc) - branch by default plus branch feature-A
• Test (test) - branch by default plus branch feature-B

pr:
rc:
    - feature-A
test:
    - feature-B

When you push commits to master branch, three builds will be created - one for each of the environments.

If push commit to branch feature-A - build for rc environment will be created.

If push commit to branch feature-C - no build will be created.

You can use variable %ENVIRONMENT% in project config.

setup:
  mysql:
    - "DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS project_name_%ENVIRONMENT%;"
    - "CREATE DATABASE project_name_%ENVIRONMENT%;"
test:
    ...
deploy:
    mage:
        env: %ENVIRONMENT%