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 "GitHub Actions 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.
Path parameters
The account owner of the repository. The name is not case sensitive.
The name of the repository without the .git extension. The name is not case sensitive.
The name of the environment. The name must be URL encoded. For example, any slashes in the name must be replaced with %2F.
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
}
]
}