Manual Approval - CI/CD Glossary Definition
Manual approval is a deployment gate where a job targeting a protected environment pauses until a designated reviewer approves it in the GitHub UI, blocking the deploy until a human signs off.
How to set it up
Add required reviewers to the environment under Settings, then have the job reference that environment with environment: production. The run waits in a "Waiting" state and notifies reviewers; it proceeds only after approval, or fails if rejected.
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