Automating workbench follow-up

Send a follow-up prompt after a pull request merges and GitOps reconciliation completes

Overview

Follow-up automation lets the workbench associated with a pull request verify changes after they merge and reconcile. The workbench can inspect the live system and infrastructure state, then report or fix issues that are only visible after deployment.

The automation method depends on your source control and CI provider. The following section documents GitHub Actions.

GitHub Actions

The Plural Workbench Follow-up Action sends a follow-up prompt to the workbench job associated with a merged pull request. It wraps the plural workbenches pr-followup command.

Info:

Run the action only for merged pull requests. The action does not check the pull request state itself.

Requirements

The workflow requires:

A GitHub Actions runner with Bash, Git, and jq
pluralsh/setup-plural@v2 run earlier in the same job with Plural CLI version 0.12.60 or newer
Access to the target Plural Console through federated credentials or a Console token
A workbench job associated with the pull request