repos
Create or update an environment
Create or update an environment with protection rules, such as required reviewers. For more information about environment protection rules, see "Environments."
Note: To create or update name patterns that branches must match in order to deploy to this environment, see "Deployment branch policies."
Note: To create or update secrets for an environment, see "Secrets."
You must authenticate using an access token with the repo scope to use this endpoint. GitHub Apps must have the administration:write permission for the repository to use this endpoint.
put/repos/{owner}/{repo}/environments/{environment_name}
Path parameters
ownerstring required
The account owner of the repository. The name is not case sensitive.
repostring required
The name of the repository without the .git extension. The name is not case sensitive.
environment_namestring required
The name of the environment.
Request body
Example request
{
"wait_timer": 30,
"reviewers": [
{
"type": "User",
"id": 4532992
}
]
}Response
Response
Example response
{
"id": 56780428,
"node_id": "MDExOkVudmlyb25tZW50NTY3ODA0Mjg=",
"name": "staging",
"url": "https://api.github.com/repos/github/hello-world/environments/staging",
"html_url": "https://github.com/github/hello-world/deployments/activity_log?environments_filter=staging",
"created_at": "2020-11-23T22:00:40Z",
"updated_at": "2020-11-23T22:00:40Z",
"protection_rules": [
{
"id": 3515,
"node_id": "MDQ6R2F0ZTM1MTU=",
"type": "wait_timer",
"wait_timer": 30
}
]
}