Approval decision
An approval decision is an explicit authorization or acceptance by an authorized person or system that allows a proposed action, change, or item to proceed.
Infrastructure as Code, Patterns and Practices: With examples in Python and Terraform
Manual approval is a human authorization step that permits a pending software or infrastructure change to proceed.
- How it is used
- Gates production infrastructure changes after automated testing when organizational review or risk classification requires human authorization.
- How deep it goes
- Explains pipeline placement, batching risks, change categories, and module exceptions without detailing approval-tool implementation.
- Examples
- Uses testing environments, SSL enablement, new infrastructure components, database modules, and operating-system-image rollbacks as delivery examples.
- What you can do after
- Operate/configure delivery pipelines that pause for review, classify changes, and bypass approval only when testing and rollback confidence justify automation.
GitHub Actions in Action: Continuous integration and delivery for DevOps
A manual approval is an explicit human authorization required before a protected operation, such as a deployment, proceeds.
- How it is used
- Gates production deployment after verification until designated people authorize release.
- How deep it goes
- Explains environment approvers, job blocking, audit traceability, and wait timers without detailing configuration syntax.
- Examples
- Uses a post-verification production release with multiple approvers and an optional staggered-release wait timer.
- What you can do after
- Operate/configure GitHub environments to hold deployment jobs until recorded human authorization is given.
Related concepts
- GitHub Actions environmentconfigured by · A GitHub Actions environment is a named deployment context that groups environment-specific variables, secrets, and protection rules for workflows.
- OpenAI Agents SDKimplemented by · The OpenAI Agents SDK is a software development kit for building and orchestrating AI agent applications with OpenAI models and related tools.
- deployment pipelinepart of · A sequence of automated or manual stages that builds, tests or validates, packages, and delivers software or models toward deployment.
- code reviewused by · Code review is the systematic examination of source code or proposed changes to identify problems and assess or improve quality.
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