Deploying to Staging Environment

Overview

The staging environment deployment is a coordinated multi-repo process that synchronizes code across three repositories (relay, relay-dashboard, relay-cloud) and automatically triggers deployment via GitHub Actions. Staging deployments ensure feature verification before production while keeping main branch clean during development.

When to Use

• Integrating features across repos - Multiple components depend on changes in different repos
• Testing feature branches together - Verify feature branch changes don't break integration
• Promoting main to staging - Standard sync to keep staging up-to-date with latest main
• Verifying deployment readiness - Test infrastructure changes or deployment workflows
• Cross-team coordination - Share feature branches for integration testing

When NOT to use:

• Emergency hotfixes (use production deployment instead)
• Single-repo changes only (push directly if not blocking other repos)
• Testing without intent to deploy (use local environment instead)