First Deployment
Approvals with Manual Interventions
Learn how to add approval gates and manual checks to your deployment process using Ctrlplane’s manual intervention features.
Overview
The Manual Approval Required step allows you to incorporate human approvals and manual verification into your deployment workflows. When a manual intervention point is reached, the deployment process pauses and waits for an explicit approval or rejection from authorized team members.
- Quality Control: Add verification steps before critical deployments
- Compliance: Ensure proper sign-off for regulated environments
- Risk Management: Prevent unauthorized or unreviewed changes
- Team Collaboration: Involve relevant stakeholders in the deployment process
Guide
Assumes you have a deployment pipeline already created. If not, you can create one by following the Getting Started guide.
- Go to the systems view and click on your environment in the table header.
- Click
Approval & Governance
in the left sidebar. - Toggle
Is approval required
toYes
.
Now, when you create a new release, it will pause at the Manual Approval Required step and wait for you to approve the deployment.