vela-deployments

What problem does it solve?

This Skill streamlines the process of triggering, configuring, and managing deployments within the Vela CI/CD platform, reducing manual effort and ensuring consistency.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Trigger Deployments: Initiate deployments via CLI or UI to specified targets (e.g., staging, production).
• Parameterization: Pass custom parameters to deployment jobs, which are available as environment variables.
• Pipeline Gating: Define steps that only execute on deployment events or for specific deployment targets.
• UI Form Generation: Configure deployment parameters and targets to generate user-friendly forms in the Vela UI.
• Use Case: Automatically deploy a new version of your application to the 'staging' environment when a specific Git tag is pushed, passing a 'region' parameter to the deployment script.

Quick Start

Use the vela-deployments skill to trigger a deployment to the 'production' target for the current repository, passing 'region=us-east' as a parameter.