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To create a Review App, a step can be added with this configuration: We created this GitHub Action that can be used in any project to either create or destroy Review Apps based on the current Pull Request that triggers it. Manage Heroku Review Apps (GitHub Action) There are many events that can trigger the execution of an Action, we only use the labeled and the closed events for the workflow described before, but here's a list of all available events.

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Actions can be created as GitHub repositories with a specific action.yml file that tells GitHub how to run it, more details here. GitHub Actions allows adding automations to a GitHub repository. Keep in mind that, if the PR has merge conflicts, the GitHub Actions are not executed GitHub Actions Note that, if the PR is merged, the Review App is destroyed automatically by Heroku

After a moment, a GitHub Action is executed: it calls the Heroku API to delete the Review App for the current branch and adds some information to the activity log showing that the label was automatically removed.

When the QA person finishes doing the QA, they add the destroy-review-app label.

When the deploy is done, Heroku updates the Deploys section of the PR with the link to the Review App.

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After a moment, Heroku will update the activity showing that a deploy is triggered and it's currently Pending.

After a moment, a GitHub Action is executed: it calls the Heroku API to create a Review App for the current branch and adds some information to the activity log showing that the label was automatically removed.

When that person is ready to QA the changes, they add the create-review-app label.

When a PR is ready for QA, one person is assigned to the PR on GitHub.

The QA Workflowīefore explaining the different parts, let's see the current QA workflow we have in place, so the next sections are more clear with this context. If you are using the old version, Heroku will show a message prompting you to upgrade. Note that, to use the workflow we'll describe here, you need to be sure you are using the new version of the Review Apps (introduced on November 7th 2019).

Merged PR: when a PR is merged, the Review App is automatically destroyed.

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Manual destroy using the Dashboard: every running Review App shows a Delete review app button in the pipeline screen in the Dashboard.

Stale PRs: in the Review Apps Dashboard, there's a configuration to automatically destroy Review Apps that are stale for a set number of days.

There are many methods to destroy a Review App:

Using the Heroku API: Heroku provides an API to manage the Review Apps.

Manual creation using the Dashboard: Heroku will list all the open PRs in the pipeline view, showing a Create review app button.

Automatic creation: every time a PR is created, Heroku creates a new app automatically.

There are 3 main methods to create Review Apps:

The purpose is to help multiple teams review different pull requests in live urls without sharing a single staging or test environment. Heroku's Review Appsįor those not familiar, Heroku has a feature called Review Apps: short-lived applications that are deployed, independently, based on the active pull requests. We started looking for an easy way to control the creation and deletion of Review Apps that can be triggered by anyone directly from the GitHub PR and here are the details and how we do this now.

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This was an easy workaround, but there's one problem, the Review Apps for Heroku Teams can't use free dynos, so we were being charged for Review Apps that were created before they were actually needed or even for PRs that didn't really need a Review App at all. So, for many months, we used the automatic Review App creation every time a PR was created/updated.

A manual creation gives us more control, but not every person involved in the QA process has access to the Heroku pipeline.

There are two configurations in Heroku to create Review Apps: manual and automatic. We started using Heroku's Review Apps because we kept running into blockers when a team needed to deploy a branch to our staging server but another team was using it. At OmbuLabs, we have some projects where multiple teams work at the same time on different features or fixes.