Deploying a release to production in a Gitflow pipeline

Once the release has been reviewed and, if applicable, validated and deployed to your release environment, the final step is to promote it to production.

When the release is ready to promote, a green "Ready to promote" banner will appear on the release node. Select the release node and choose Open pull request to open the PR against main:

You can review the full contents of the PR by selecting your production environment and opening the Releases tab:
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This is your final opportunity to confirm that what is being deployed reflects exactly what was planned, integrated, and tested throughout your release cycle. Gearset will run the following checks before the release can be promoted:

Once all checks have passed and you are satisfied the release is ready, select Deploy release to promote it to production. Once the PR is merged into main and the release is successfully deployed, your release is complete.