Deploy to prod using the UI
From a workspace in Windmill, you can deploy a script/flow/resource/variable and all its dependencies to another workspace. This is a natural way of implementing staging/prod. This feature is available for Cloud plans and Self-Hosted Enterprise Edition only.
For all details on Deployments to Prod, see Deploy to prod.
The Draft and deploy is another feature that offers a lightweight solution for implementing a staging and production workflow, suitable for various scenarios.
How it works
For users with admin rights on the source workspace, in the Workspace settings, go to the "Deployment UI" tab and pick a workspace for "Workspace to link to".
This workspace to link to can for example be:
- a Staging workspace to test scrips and flows
- a Prod workspace where you can deploy scripts and flows when ready.
Then, from the workspace, on the ⋮ menu of each deployed script or flow, pick "Deploy to staging/prod". This can be done also from the Resources and Variables menus or directly from a script or flow Details page.
This can be done by users with both View rights on the deployed-from workspace and edit rights on the deployed-to workspace.
You can deploy one by one flows, scripts (including each script within flow), variables and resources. Or toggle more than one and "Deploy all".
Items are called:
- "Missing" if not yet present in the deployed workspace.
- "New" if the item will be created with the deployment.
- "diff" if the item was already deployed previously. This opens a difference viewer tab where you can see differences with the previous version.
Shareable page
A static page is created for each potential deployment to Staging/Prod.
This can be useful for non-admin (for example, operators) to share a page to properly-permissioned users to have them review or do the deployment.
Even users who are not admin can see the "Deploy to staging/prod", from where they can get the link of the shareable page.
This page then allows users with the right permissions to deploy the given items.