POST /repos/{owner}/{repo}/deployments

Deployments offer a few configurable parameters with certain defaults.

The ref parameter can be any named branch, tag, or SHA. At GitHub we often deploy branches and verify them before we merge a pull request.

The environment parameter allows deployments to be issued to different runtime environments. Teams often have multiple environments for verifying their applications, such as production, staging, and qa. This parameter makes it easier to track which environments have requested deployments. The default environment is production.

The auto_merge parameter is used to ensure that the requested ref is not behind the repository's default branch. If the ref is behind the default branch for the repository, we will attempt to merge it for you. If the merge succeeds, the API will return a successful merge commit. If merge conflicts prevent the merge from succeeding, the API will return a failure response.

By default, commit statuses for every submitted context must be in a success state. The required_contexts parameter allows you to specify a subset of contexts that must be success, or to specify contexts that have not yet been submitted. You are not required to use commit statuses to deploy. If you do not require any contexts or create any commit statuses, the deployment will always succeed.

The payload parameter is available for any extra information that a deployment system might need. It is a JSON text field that will be passed on when a deployment event is dispatched.

The task parameter is used by the deployment system to allow different execution paths. In the web world this might be deploy:migrations to run schema changes on the system. In the compiled world this could be a flag to compile an application with debugging enabled.

Merged branch response:

You will see this response when GitHub automatically merges the base branch into the topic branch instead of creating a deployment. This auto-merge happens when:

Auto-merge option is enabled in the repository
Topic branch does not include the latest changes on the base branch, which is master in the response example
There are no merge conflicts

If there are no new commits in the base branch, a new request to create a deployment should give a successful response.

Merge conflict response:

This error happens when the auto_merge option is enabled and when the default branch (in this case master), can't be merged into the branch that's being deployed (in this case topic-branch), due to merge conflicts.

Failed commit status checks:

This error happens when the required_contexts parameter indicates that one or more contexts need to have a success status for the commit to be deployed, but one or more of the required contexts do not have a state of success.

OAuth app tokens and personal access tokens (classic) need the repo or repo_deployment scope to use this endpoint.

Servers

https://api.github.com

Path parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`repo`	String	Yes	The name of the repository without the `.git` extension. The name is not case sensitive.
`owner`	String	Yes	The account owner of the repository. The name is not case sensitive.

Request headers

Name	Type	Required	Description
`Content-Type`	String	Yes	The media type of the request body. Default value: "application/json"

Request body fields

Name	Type	Required	Description
`production_environment`	Boolean	No	Specifies if the given environment is one that end-users directly interact with. Default: `true` when `environment` is `production` and `false` otherwise.
`description`	String	No	Short description of the deployment.
`required_contexts[]`	Array	No	The status contexts to verify against commit status checks. If you omit this parameter, GitHub verifies all unique contexts before creating a deployment. To bypass checking entirely, pass an empty array. Defaults to all unique contexts.
`payload`		No
`transient_environment`	Boolean	No	Specifies if the given environment is specific to the deployment and will no longer exist at some point in the future. Default: `false` Default value: false
`ref`	String	Yes	The ref to deploy. This can be a branch, tag, or SHA.
`environment`	String	No	Name for the target deployment environment (e.g., `production`, `staging`, `qa`). Default value: "production"
`task`	String	No	Specifies a task to execute (e.g., `deploy` or `deploy:migrations`). Default value: "deploy"
`auto_merge`	Boolean	No	Attempts to automatically merge the default branch into the requested ref, if it's behind the default branch. Default value: true

How to start integrating

Add HTTP Task to your workflow definition.
Search for the API you want to integrate with and click on the name.
- This loads the API reference documentation and prepares the Http request settings.
Click Test request to test run your request to the API and see the API's response.