Deployments.md

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Deployments

We use GitHub Actions for our deployments.
Here are the GitHub Actions pipelines for the GRC service.

When are deployments run?

• Pushing to the master branch deploys to the sandbox environment
  You can see the sandbox deployments here

• Pushing a tag named stage-* deploys to the staging environment
  You can see the staging deployments here

• Pushing a tag named v* deploys to the production environment
  You can see the production deployments here

How to deploy to Gov.UK PaaS manually

Normally, it shouldn't be necessary to deploy to PaaS manually.

But, there might be cases where you want to test something quickly in a PaaS environment.
To deploy to PaaS, follow these instructions:

• Follow the instructions on the Hosting and live databases page to connect to the hosting environments

• Open a Bash terminal in the hosting folder

• Run ./LoginToGovPaas.sh
  This should log you in to Gov.UK PaaS. You will be targeting the GRC organisation and the sandbox space:

• Return to the root folder:
  cd ..

• Run this command

  cf target -s sandbox
  cf push geo-gender-recognition-certificate --manifest manifest-grc.yml --strategy rolling

Alternatively, you can login directly to PaaS (Note: All users should have Single Sign On enabled):

cf login --sso

Select your desired project and target environment to continue. Once logged in, push the code:

cf push APP_NAME -f MANIFEST_NAME --strategy rolling

WHERE: APP_NAME is the name of the app to be pushed, e.g. geo-gender-recognition-certificate and MANIFEST_NAME is your manifest file, e.g. manifest-sandbox.yml