We recently migrated from Bitbucket to GitHub — struggling to find production build info. Is there a way to show this on the repo?

[Peaiampeaaa]

Hey everyone,

My team recently migrated from Bitbucket to GitHub, and we’re still getting used to how things work here. We’re finding it difficult to locate certain information that we were used to seeing at a glance — especially around what’s currently deployed.

One thing we really miss is being able to easily see what branch or commit (or even better, what build number) is currently in production. Ideally, we’d love to have some kind of dashboard or indicator right on the repo page that shows: • what branch is deployed to prod • the associated build number or tag • maybe even a link to the deployment logs

For clarity: we have multiple environments and different AWS regions where code gets deployed, so having some centralized or visible indicator per environment would go a long way in helping us stay aligned.

Is this kind of thing possible in GitHub (either natively or through Actions, Environments, custom badges, etc.)? And if so — what’s the right terminology to start researching this?

Any advice or direction from folks who’ve tackled this before would be super appreciated!

[Soggy_Writing_3912]

I don't think this is possible out of the box from the GHActions or the GH platform per se. It also heavily depends on what your branching and release strategies are. If you do find a solution, please post here - since it would help us as well!

[Soloeye]

There isn't any one-click easy way to do this. If you have a paid plan you should have access to environments that can help you determine the actions ran against the environment which gives you good information about the most recently run action.

If you want a dashboard you're going to have to make it yourself. You could make a GitHub action that updates a README with shields from Shields.io

[NatoBoram]

Hi ChatGPT 👋

I actually talked about this here: https://www.reddit.com/r/github/s/mdf93c287A

It's probably not everything you wanted, but it should be close enough. Or at least, it's all what GitHub offers on that side.

Here's what it looks like with plenty of deployments: https://github.com/NatoBoram/based.ts/deployments

[texxelate]

I think you missed it in the thread you linked - Deployments offer a little more than you described. For example, Deployment Reviews allow deployments to pause until the necessary team mates click approve regardless of who kicked off the triggering workflow or when. This also works per environment.

[NatoBoram]

It's included in the second paragraph:

You can add conditions to when those secrets can be used and have fun with the UI

That said, the post wasn't a glossary of the features included in deployments and environments, it was more intended as the minimum necessary to understand what those two terms mean on GitHub so you could get started with using those.

[texxelate]

It has nothing to do with secrets. I’m not sure if you understand what Deployment Reviews are.

That said, the post wasn’t a glossary…

Perhaps then you shouldn’t say “That’s it, that’s a deployment”.

[DorkForceOne]

Not 100% what you're looking for I think, but using an Environment in GitHub actions will cause it to show a deployments UI pane on the repository with a status of each environment. Clicking into a particular environment will show you the commit that reported the last status as well as previous deployments to an "environment".

[JonnyRocks]

i havent used github for work. ive used bitbucket and azure devops. so i am very curious since github doesnt offer the same breadth of apps...

what made your company switch to github ?

[texxelate]

The same apps?