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Approval - CI/CD Glossary Definition

An approval is a recorded go-ahead from an authorized reviewer.

An approval is a recorded decision by an authorized reviewer that a change or deployment may proceed, often required by branch protection or a deployment environment.

An approval is a recorded go-ahead from an authorized reviewer.

In CI

GitHub environments can require named reviewers to approve before a deployment job runs, pausing the pipeline until the approval is granted.

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